can't build cvs exult debian package

[tigerblue]

Can anyone with experience building exult & exult-tools under debian lend me a hand?

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

run from the top level of my exult cvs directory gets most of the way through the build process, past the compilation stage, and then can't figure out where to put the *flx files:
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/home/tigerblue/exult/debian/tmp/usr/share/games/exult/estudio/new/estudio/new/combos.flx': No such file or directory

(etc. for all of the remaining flx files)

Note the path and the nested estudio/new/estudio/new reference. And no, the directory that it's trying to place the files in does not exist, probably with good reason

Any clues?

-tigerblue

[wjp]

Your automake version is probably broken. Automake before 1.6.3 (I think) doesn't install data files in the place it should.

(Kind of silly. It installs binaries to the right place, but not scripts and data files)

[tigerblue]

Thanks! That did it. The version of automake on the machine I was compiling on was horribly out-of-date, like version 1.4. I upgraded to 1.7.3 and all is fixed.

-tigerblue