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Re: Help building debs



On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:48:58PM -0800, Dan Peterson wrote:
> I untar the tarball, do a 'perl Makefile.PL' to get
> the Makefile ready, but when I run 'debuild', it seems
> to blow away the Makefile and then complains that it
> can't continue as that file doesn't exist!

'make clean' deletes Makefile, not really debuild. You need to arrange
that the 'build' target in debian/rules runs 'perl Makefile.PL' before
running 'make'.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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