Well, I wondered what fakeroot was for!

Thanks

Graham.

On 26 June 2011 16:47, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 27 June 2011 01:41, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Right, thanks - I hadn't realised that rules is a makefile with
> '#!/bin/make
> > -f' at the top to tell the shell to run it with make - clever!
> > To get it to build a debian package I had to do 'sudo debian/rules
> binary'.
> >   Not sure why I had to be root, but it complained when I wasn't.
>
> Isn't that what the fakeroot package is for?
>



-- 
Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK.
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