Hello, I'm trying to build my first cross-distribution package, but I run into the following problem.
The source of my project includes symbolic links to other source trees (notably, the CppUTest framework and a library used by several of our projects). When I call `dpkg-buildpackage` to build a debian package out of my project, I've found that `dpkg-source` will not follow the symbolic links and leaves them as empty files in the source's tarball. As a result, they cannot be used by `pbuilder` to build the package for another distribution. Digging further, I believe this is because the default behavior for `tar` is not to dereference symbolic links unless explicitly told to (with `-h`). I was unable to find any way to pass this extra option to `tar` when building the debian source's tarball. I've also asked the question on StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/q/10917214/1428) but to no avail. What am I doing wrong here? Is it possible to build a debian source tarball whose origin includes symbolic links? If so, how? -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: David Lindelöf, Ph.D. +41 (0)79 415 66 41 or skype:david.lindelof Better Software for Tomorrow's Cities: http://computersandbuildings.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/dlindelof -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOxvkvANR5=fqz_yiyr-oaqe4tnptn_qzy7numegu3agh2t...@mail.gmail.com
