how to debug debuild process
Dear list,
Every now and then I package data reduction software for the convenience
of my colleagues at the radio astronomical observatory where I work. The
software is typically written by ourselves or by colleagues at similar
places elsewhere in Europe and freely distributed as source tar-balls.
I have recently run into an interesting problem with one of the software
packages, where I can run the individual steps to generate the package
successfully, but where the use of dpkg-buildpackage fails. In other
words, all of
$ fakeroot debian/rules clean
$ fakeroot debian/rules build
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
will work (and in fact eventually produce a valid deb-file), but
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
will fail with a weird compile error somewhere in the middle of the
build process. It appears as if dpkg-buildpackage after all is not
simply the sequence of commands that the man-page will make us believe?
How could I debug this process? It's really mostly curiosity that drives
me right now, because I can build the package step by step as described
above.
cheers,
Michael
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Michael Olberg <michael.olberg@chalmers.se>
Onsala Space Observatory tel: +46-(0)31-7725507
Chalmers University of Technology fax: +46-(0)31-7725590
S-43992 Onsala, SWEDEN mobile: +46-(0)70-3319556
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