My apologies for all this unnecessary noise. It turns
out it was simply
user error, i.e. my error.
No problem Mike. I have seen all your email just now,
anyway ;-)
By the way, I suggest you spend a little time looking at pbuilder, it improves/simplifies
the building process a lot.
In Wheezy it is not much of a problem to build using dpkg-buildpackage because binutils is
unlikely to change.
But in Jessie binutils changes from time to time and if you want to move to the new
binutils version, you would be forced to remove most of TDE packages, due to the strict
dependency of libr0 to binutils version.
With pbuilder/pdebuild you can rebuild TDE using the new binutils version in a separate
environment, then just upgrade binutils and all TDE packages at the same time without
problems.
There are probably other ways to do the same thing, but I found pbuilder really
straightforward once you hav eset it up.
Here is a good HowTo
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto
Cheers
Michele