Re: Multiple binary packages

["Jeffrey Ratcliffe" <jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com>]

On 04/10/2007, Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net> wrote:
> you will see, that the autotools files (install-sh, ...) are links to
> tools of automake version 1.9. And they are probably dead links, because
> you miss the automake 1.9 package. But that's just a guess.

Absolutely right. And it now builds OK.

> That's correct. However I dislike the `install -d' and `cp' calls in
> debian/rules. dh_installdirs and dh_install exist. By using dh_install,
> you don't need to create the directories with dh_dirs first.

Are you saying that the upstream Makefile should get the structure
right and one dh_install call should do the rest?

But looking hard at the dh_install manual page I think has solved my
problem. I wouldn't have known to look there.

Thanks for the help

Jeff