Re: mystery of dh_installdirs

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi Benjamin,

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:07:53 -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:

> > My guess is, it would be necessary to add "-A" like 
> > dh_installdirs -A in rules' install target.
> > (there are two packages, lynx-cur which is architecture dependent
> > and lynx-cur-wrapper which is independent)
> >   
> Yes. Or -plynx-cur-wrapper

I don't know why but this failed to fix the problem.

> Your machine built both the arch-independent and arch-dependent targets,
> the buildd only builds arch-dependent. (For your source, pbuilder build
> lynx-cur_2.8.6dev18-1.dsc succeeds, but pbuilder build --binary-arch
> lynx-cur_2.8.6dev18-1.dsc fails.)
> 
> Since debhelper acts on the first package by default, it doesn't happen
> for lynx-cur-wrapper, and you include parts of the building of
> lynx-cur-wrapper in your rules. You may want to consider splitting build
> and install into build/install-indep/dep to minimize the work of the
> systems building only the arch-dependent package.

Thank for your detailed explanation and splitting install-indep/-arch
seemed to fix the problem.

> Happy to help,
> Benjamin

Thanks again for your kind help.

Regards,			2006-6-14(Wed)

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