Errors in compiling a source package

[Daniel Martin <martind@math.jhu.edu>]

I'm trying to compile xemacs20_2.2-4 for my bo (read: libc5) system.  I
modified the portion of the debian/rules file that called the configure
script so that it configured things the way I wanted them, and the make
seems to go fine (well, actually there are quite a few "warnings" on
compile, but nothing that looks too bad) until it gets to the
dpkg-shlibdeps bit; at that point I get loads of errors of the form: 

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on 
`debian/tmp/xemacs20/usr/bin/b2m.xemacs20': 
`       libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000a000)'

(I've wrapped the error text for readability)
I also get several warnings of files for which ldd produced nothing on
standard output, but I assume I can ignore those, as they indeed don't
have shared library dependencies.
I then get a complaint from dpkg --search about not being passed any
arguments, and the make bombs. 

I assume that dpkg --search isn't being passed any arguments because
dpkg-shlibdeps couldn't identify any libraries in the ldd output - so what
exactly does dpkg-shlibdeps want ldd to hand it?  Why isn't my ldd doing
that?

Package versions, etc:
dpkg            1.4.0.8
dpkg-dev        1.4.0.8
ldso            1.9.6-2
gcc             2.7.2.1-8



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