diff -Nur buildpkg-0.0.2r28f/helpers/Makefile buildpkg-0.0.2r28f-mrice/helpers/Makefile
--- buildpkg-0.0.2r28f/helpers/Makefile	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ buildpkg-0.0.2r28f-mrice/helpers/Makefile	2005-05-24 15:09:28.619402800 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+DIRS= geteuid lstat readlink rotopipe
+
+all: ${DIRS}
+	@for d in ${DIRS}; do \
+		( cd $${d} && ${MAKE} ${MAKEARGS} ) \
+	done
+
+install: ${DIRS}
+	@for d in ${DIRS}; do \
+		( cd $${d} && ${MAKE} install ${MAKEARGS} ) \
+	done
+
+clean: ${DIRS}
+	@for d in ${DIRS}; do \
+		( cd $${d} && ${MAKE} clean ${MAKEARGS} ) \
+	done
diff -Nur buildpkg-0.0.2r28f/helpers/readlink/Makefile buildpkg-0.0.2r28f-mrice/helpers/readlink/Makefile
--- buildpkg-0.0.2r28f/helpers/readlink/Makefile	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ buildpkg-0.0.2r28f-mrice/helpers/readlink/Makefile	2005-05-24 14:02:15.906040800 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.1 2003/05/10 10:43:38 dice Exp $
+#
+
+CC         = gcc
+STRIP      = strip
+
+DESTDIR    =
+HELPERSDIR = /usr/lib/buildpkg/helpers
+
+all: readlink
+
+install: all
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${HELPERSDIR}
+	cp ./readlink ${DESTDIR}${HELPERSDIR}
+	chown 0:0 ${DESTDIR}${HELPERSDIR}/readlink
+	chmod 755 ${DESTDIR}${HELPERSDIR}/readlink
+
+clean:
+	rm -f *.o readlink
+
+readlink: readlink.c
+	$(CC) -o readlink readlink.c
+#	$(STRIP) --strip-debug readlink
diff -Nur buildpkg-0.0.2r28f/helpers/readlink/readlink.c buildpkg-0.0.2r28f-mrice/helpers/readlink/readlink.c
--- buildpkg-0.0.2r28f/helpers/readlink/readlink.c	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ buildpkg-0.0.2r28f-mrice/helpers/readlink/readlink.c	2005-05-24 15:02:58.632616200 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/* from http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=23618&seqNum=12 */
+
+int main (int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+ char target_path[256];
+ char* link_path = argv[1];
+
+ /* Attempt to read the target of the symbolic link. */
+ int len = readlink (link_path, target_path, sizeof (target_path));
+
+ if (len == -1) {
+  /* The call failed. */
+  if (errno == EINVAL)
+   /* It's not a symbolic link; report that. */
+   fprintf (stderr, "%s is not a symbolic link\n", link_path);
+  else
+   /* Some other problem occurred; print the generic message. */
+   perror ("readlink");
+  return 1;
+ }
+ else {
+  /* NUL-terminate the target path. */
+  target_path[len] = '\0';
+  /* Print it. */
+  printf ("%s\n", target_path);
+  return 0;
+ }
+}