[Gambas-user] Gambas2 - Debian and Ubuntu packages fail to built (Package.MakeDebPackage.368: File or directory does not exist)!

[Willy Raets]

On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 07:27 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 24/12/2012 01:37, Willy Raets a écrit :
> > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic
> > Distribution: Linux Mint 13
> > desktop: Mate 1.2
> > Gambas version: 2.24
> >
> > Haven't been working that much on Gambas 2, but I have a distributed
> > Gambas 2 application that will get a version update with some bug fixes,
> > new implementations and translation updates.
> >
> > Somehow it won't package for Debian and Ubuntu. If I deselct those other
> > packages (Fedora/openSuSe...) will pack.
> >
> > I last made a package of this application 30th of October on this same
> > system with the same Gambas 2 installed. All worked well then, so what
> > happened?
> >
> > Package screen indicates: Package.MakeDebPackage.368: File or directory
> > does not exist (see attached screen).
> > What file or directory is the packager looking for at that point and why
> > isn't it there? What could be causing this? Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Willy
> >
> >
> > Gambas path: /usr/bin/gbx2
> >
> >
> 
> This error is raised when the packager cannot create some sub-directory 
> inside the target directory defined in the wizard. Can you check that?

I played a round a bit and discovered this:

When trying to make a package to a long and deep path (as I did
originally) packages for Debia/Ubuntu fail with error above

When trying to make the same package in User home or on Desktop it
works!!

Could too long path names me problematic for Debian/Ubuntu package
making?

Anyway, I succeeded in making the package just by changing to another
location with a shorter path.

Willy