[fpc-devel]How to build debian packages?

[Peter Vreman]

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:53:24 GMT
> Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Hi devels,
> > > 
> > > How to build the .debs (fp-utils, fp-api, fp-compiler, fp-rtl) from the current
source?
> > > Or better: how to build one package fpc-1.0.5.deb ?
> > 
> > In the top dir you can run (as root):
> 
> as root? :(
> 

Maybe with fakeroot you can get it working, but i never tested it. 

>  
> > make deb
> 
> I got a waiting latex:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/fpc-1.0.5/docs'
> pdflatex user
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (user.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
> LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
> Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, i
> talian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (preamble.inc
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: \usepackage before \documentclass.
> 
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...                                              
>                                                   
> l.4 \usepackage{
>                 html}
> ? 
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Does not look great,

Maybe a recently created problem, normally it should build on a debian potato,woody or sid
system.