I'm trying to compile perl-5.6.0 under potato. There're some errors relating to the lib/ndbm and lib/anydbm. I tried to comment out these. Finally I changed the debian/rules and debian/config.debian
and added to the Configure: -Ui_ndbm in the perl-5.6.0 source directory. STRANGE thing happend!!! My whole /usr/bin directory was wiped out only two directories remained there: libc5-compat mh I was running dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b as root from the perl source directory which is located in a different location than /usr. Could the dpkg-buildpackage erase the contents of /usr/bin ? Or something else happend? The other libraries weren't effected I think. Anyway I downloaded the base2_2.tgz with netscape which is installed under /usr/local and put the /usr/bin/* files from the archive into /usr/bin. Is there a way to rebuild the other parts of the system? I mean to get the missing binaries under /usr/bin? Gabor
