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Re: checkinstall



Ken,
Thanks for your reply.   You were right, though I discovered my error in the 
meantime.

On Tuesday 23 July 05:24, Ken Bloom wrote:
> In article <200206292119.29683.robertsohn@sympatico.ca> you wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > Anyone know how to have checkinstall NOT add the source files to the
> > deb it creates?  It seems to me that it used to prompt me, asking if I
> > would like them included.  Now it just goes ahead and builds with every
> > damn source file included.
> >Robert_L

> I imagine that when you're not using checkinstall, you're calling
> ./configure
> sudo make install

Ken
No, I do it :
./configure
make
make install (as root)

> and that for checkinstall you're using
> ./configure
> sudo checkinstall

Yes, I found that out after I posted much to my embarassment.
I hadn't used checkinstall for quite a while and had never seen this problem 
before , and was conviced:
a) I remembered how to use it,  as the build proceeded nicely.
b) that a checkinstall upgrade was causing the problem !
Undoubtedly I had been using it properly before.

Actually, I just finished installing KDE from cvs using checkinstall.
What a great program.
I guess the next step would be to learn how to make a real deb, but at the 
moment this is the next best thing without facing the seemingly daunting 
docs.

all the best,
Robert_L


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