On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 01:29:19PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:12:25PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > Rather 'chmod +x /usr/bin/make' according to the error message. Weird. > > It is a confusing (confused) error message. The permission problem is with > the script, not the interpreter.
Huh? % chmod a-x debian/rules % dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage: source package is noflushd dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.6.3-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean sh: line 1: debian/rules: Permission denied % chmod a+x debian/rules % sudo chmod a-x /usr/bin/make % dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage: source package is noflushd dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.6.3-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean sh: debian/rules: /usr/bin/make: bad interpreter: Permission denied The last line exactly matches the original error messages. Clearly not a problem with debian/rules, but with make. Regards, Daniel.