[Pkg-exim4-users] Exim4 custom build fails with dh_testdir: unknown option; aborting

[mark david mcCreary]

I could use some guidance on compiling Exim4 the Debian way.  I'm 
close, but
could be going wrong in any number of ways.

I get the binary built, but then it fails with

	dh_testdir -p"" -pexim4-daemon-custom -pexim4-daemon-custom-dbg -p""
	Option p requires an argument
	dh_testdir: unknown option; aborting

I want to compile Exim just like Exim-daemon-heavy, except with 
Domainkeys.

The documentation says to use Exim-daemon-light, but I have substituted 
heavy,
not sure if that is sending me down the wrong path or not.

The debian/rules document talks about

# to EDITME.exim4-custom and modify it. Please note that you _need_ to
# modify EDITME.exim4-custom or your build will fail due to #386188.


I have modifiedEDITME.exim4-custom to include

EXPERIMENTAL_DOMAINKEYS=yes
LDFLAGS += -ldomainkeys

Otherwise the file is the same as the EDITME.exim4-heavy.  Not sure
if Debian bug 386188 is impacting me or not.

I'm running the following steps.


apt-get --assume-yes install exim4-daemon-heavy
apt-get --assume-yes install exim4-base
apt-get --assume-yes install exim4-config    
apt-get --assume-yes install build-essential
apt-get --assume-yes install dpkg-dev
apt-get --assume-yes install fakeroot
apt-get --assume-yes install debhelper

apt-get build-dep exim4

cd /usr/local/src

apt-get source --download-only exim4
dpkg-source -x exim4_4.63-12.dsc

cd /usr/local/src/exim4-4.63

fakeroot debian/rules unpack-configs

cp /usr/local/bin/Makefile_Etch_Domainkeys 
/usr/local/src/exim4-4.63/EDITME.exim4-custom

fakeroot debian/rules buildbasepackages=no 
extradaemonpackages=exim4-daemon-custom binary




Which fails like this

...
...
...  Looking good up thru here

>>> exim binary built
 
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/src/exim4-4.63/build-tree/build-Linux-i386'
cd /usr/local/src/exim4-4.63/build-tree && mv build-${build:-`/bin/sh 
scripts/os-type`-`/bin/sh scripts/arch-type`} build-exim4-daemon-custom
dh_testdir
touch build-arch-stamp
dh_testdir
# Add here command to compile/build the arch indep package.
# It's ok not to do anything here, if you don't need to build
#  anything for this package.
#/usr/bin/docbook-to-man /usr/local/src/exim4-4.63/debian/exim.sgml > 
exim.1
touch build-indep-stamp
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installdirs
install -m4755 -oroot -groot 
/usr/local/src/exim4-4.63/build-tree/build-exim4-daemon-custom/exim 
/usr/local/src/exim4-4.63/debian/exim4-daemon-custom/usr/sbin/exim4
dh_testdir -p"" -pexim4-daemon-custom -pexim4-daemon-custom-dbg -p""
Option p requires an argument
dh_testdir: unknown option; aborting
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1





Any suggestions ?

Thank you.

mark