title: Message "debian/rules: no such file or directory"
body: <p>I'm a beginner at Debian, and GNU/linux in general and I was following a tutorial to create a cross compiler, when I stumbled upon the message</p>
  
  <p>/usr/bin/fakeroot: line 178: /debian/rules/: No such file or directory</p>
  
  <p>when running the following command</p>
  
  <p>TARGET="alpha-dec-osf4" fakeroot debian/rules binary-cross</p>
  
  <p>or even </p>
  
  <p>fakeroot /debian/rules/ clean</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to find a manual or guide to learn about debian/rules, but I even have problems finding something for beginners.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?  I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)</p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much in advance</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I tried these commands to compile a binutils 2.17, in order to make a cross compiler that would output Alpha OSF/1 binaries on x86 systems. I downloaded binutils from the GNU webpage, so perhaps this was my main mistake, as @Sigi explained that it should be a debian package.</p>