I just found my problem and its so simple (KICK KICK KICK)
its called adding this to your path statement (DIH!): /usr/sbin
like so:export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

grrrrrrrrrr. I hate getting old.


On Tuesday 30 January 2007 22:52, Technomage wrote:
> ok,
> I'm at a bit of a loss here.
> I am in need of building some packages as a NON-ROOT user (using fakeroot,
> etc) and I can't get a build to complete because I am missing an enviroment
> variable.
>
> the only problem is, I don't know what it is....
>
> here's a sample output of one project:
>
> fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is po4a
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.29-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral)
> <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
>  debian/rules clean
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> /usr/bin/perl Build clean
> Can't open perl script "Build": No such file or directory
> make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
> rm -rf _build build-stamp Build
> dh_clean
>  dpkg-source -b po4a-0.29
> dpkg-source: building po4a using existing po4a_0.29.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: building po4a in po4a_0.29-1.diff.gz
> dpkg-source: failure: create file po4a_0.29-1.diff.gz: Permission denied
> *******************************
>
> there are a couple of items here.... 1 is the permissions issue and the
> other is the lack of the 'BUILD' perl script.
>
> some help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks.
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