Re: Problem building ARMHF Debian deb file

On Tuesday 23 December 2014 18:08:22 David Goodenough wrote:
> I am trying to install dbmail on a Cubieboard-2, which is an armhf system.
> 
> The Cubieboard-2 is installed using the standard debian-installer as a
> jessie (i.e. currently testing) system.
> 
> I have installed all the dependencies, and git cloned the repository.  The
> only pre-req I had to adjust was on automake, the debian/control file says
> automake1-9, but the earliest version available seems to be 1-14, so I
> changed the debian/control file to say simply automake.  I realise that this
> may cause problems later on, but I seem to be failing long before this.
> 
> But when I use dpkg-buildpackage I get:-
> 
> $dpkg-buildpackage
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package dbmail
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 3.0.2-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution oneiric
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Paul J Stevens <[email protected]>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture armhf
>  dpkg-source --before-build dbmail
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> debian/rules:138: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status
> 2
> 
> Any idea as to why this might happen?
> 
> I also tried apt-get source dbmail but that gave:-
> 
> $apt-get source dbmail
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
>   dbmail
> E: Some packages could not be authenticated
> 
> I am not sure how I get the source authenticated?  Anyone know?
> 
> David
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Well I made some progress.

Firstly the lines flagged as in error in the debian/rules file seem to be
unnecessary.

binary-%: build install
        make -f debian/rules binary-common $* DH_OPTIONS=-p$*

They can be either commented out or deleted.

I then had a problem where it complained that it could not use quilt
and download the relevant source tarball.  Switching from (quilt) 
to (git) in debian/source/format cured that, but various files were not
checked in and needed to be to keep things going.  Any now it seems to work, 
but I have only built 3.0 as yet as that is what the debian directory
seems to have been set up with.

I have also not upgraded the dependencies, but it still seems to build.

Now to try to install and run the .deb file.

David

David