[maemo-developers] Error building maemopad package

[From: Mike Cowlishaw]

Thanks for the quick reply ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Stone [mailto:daniel.stone at nokia.com]
> 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?

No, I am using the VMWare appliance (ubuntu with Scratchbox, etc., ready
installed), to which I added the Nokia binaries as per INSTALL.txt.  The
maemo_hello program and the desktop work as shown, but I'm now stuck :-(

All suggestions welcome!

mfc