Re: Libtool and packaging

[Alexis Papadopoulos <Alexis.Papadopoulos@imag.fr>]

Hello,

I unfortunately deleted all my control files in an attempt to make a 
"fresh" start, but created a very simple debian/rules so as to test if 
the --enable-fast-install solved my problem, here it is :


#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of 
dh-make.

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

CFLAGS = -Wall -g

ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
       CFLAGS += -O0
else
       CFLAGS += -O2
endif

configure: configure-stamp
configure-stamp:
       dh_testdir

       # Add here commands to configure the package.
       ./configure --enable-fast-install --prefix=/usr 
--mandir=/usr/share/man
       touch configure-stamp

build: build-stamp

build-stamp: configure-stamp
       dh_testdir

       # Add here commands to compile the package.
       $(MAKE)
       touch build-stamp

clean:
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp

       # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
       -$(MAKE) clean
       dh_clean

install: build
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       dh_clean -k
       dh_installdirs

       # Add here commands to install the package into debian/rheolef.
       $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/rheolef

# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: build install
# We have nothing to do by default.

# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch: build install
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog
       dh_installdocs
       dh_installexamples

       dh_installman
       dh_link
       dh_strip
       dh_compress
       dh_fixperms
       dh_installdeb
       dh_shlibdeps
       dh_gencontrol
       dh_md5sums
       dh_builddeb

binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure

DESTDIR is set correctly for the make install, and so is prefix during 
configuration. What makes me think it isn't related to that is the fact 
that after compilation, the binaries in .libs directories are already 
linked to my shared library, but not to /usr/lib/librheolef.so.513 as 
they should be (I checked with flac package, after compilation the flac 
binary is linked to a shared library that should be located under /usr/lib).

What I'll try now to convince myself (I hope I'm right) that it was only 
a matter of --enable-fast-install, I'll try to disable it and compile 
flac (because for this package it is enabled by default, not for 
rheolef). If it fails, I'm done with this, if it works I'll have to dig 
a little bit further maybe.

Now, the problem I want to resolve is the following one. The upstream 
author has included in his sources the config.{guess,sub} files, which I 
remove and replace by links to the /usr/share/libtool/config.{guess,sub} 
ones). This works fine. But he also gives a ltmain.sh file, and the 
libltdl directory which are also to be found into /usr/share/libtool/. 
Do I have to replace them too ? If I try (by hand or by using 
libtoolize), after configuration I'm getting a non-working libtool, as I 
explained in my previous message. Not touching ltmain.sh seems to work, 
but I don't want this to be a temporary solution, I want to be sure that 
I can let it as it is, or if I have to fix something.

> could I have a look at your debian/rules file?
>
> perhaps you are changing prefix instead of DESTDIR when running
> the install target?
> Are you using CDBS? It should handle autotool packages quite well
> out of the box.

No, actually I only use debhelper, but apparently (having read the docs) 
it should handle autotools correctly too. I'll give a try to CDBS also 
to see.

Thanks for helping Martin :)