[maemo-developers] Error building maemopad package

[From: Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:46:05PM +0100, ext Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
> Hi, I am working my way through the Maemo 3.0 tutorial, and everything was 
> working as expected until I got to step 4 of the maemopad example.  This 
> 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' appears to go well, but ends with:
> 
>   dh_link
>   ln: creating symbolic link 
>   `debian/tmp/etc/others-menu/extra_applications/0112_maemopad.desktop'
>   to `/usr/share/applications/hildon/maemopad.desktop': Operation not 
>   permitted
> 
>   dh_link: command returned error code 256
>   make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> 
> ... which is a bit of a show-stopper.  Any ideas as to what might cause 
> this?

Are you working on a filesystem which doesn't allow symbolic links?
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