Hoary: unmet build dependencies when trying to build hostap

[Ubu Roi]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:46:29PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

> On ma, 2005-04-18 at 12:35 +0200, Ubu Roi wrote:
> > I downloaded the hostap-source package (apt-get source).
> > When trying to build the deb package using dpkg-buildpackage
> > I get the following:
> >  dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: cdbs
> >  dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
> >  dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
 
> In addition to what Emil said:
> In this case it is cdbs, as indicated by the error. You can also check
> the file debian/control in the sourcefolder to check the dependencies
> and use dpkg -l or dpkg --get-selections to see if you have installed
> them.

Thanks for the help Emil & Dennis. (cdbs was missing).
However I now get another error:

 /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk:59: "DEB_MAKE_TEST_TARGET is a
 deprecated variable"
 if [ -z "" ]; then \
  if ! test -f debian/compat; then echo 4 > debian/compat; fi; \
 fi
 /bin/sh: debian/compat: Permission denied
 make: *** [pre-build] Error 1

I am not a programmer so my understanding of what I am doing is
shaky. But I was doing it this way (dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b)
because I wanted to build in my home directory as 'user'.
Why do I get the "Permission denied" message.

Ubu