Re: Packaging a project using cmake

[Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk>]

On 2008-06-07, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
>> On 2008-06-07, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>   I am working on cleaning up the packaging of my project (GDCM) using
>>> cmake so that the .deb produced is consistant with the debian package.
>>> I was wondering if anyone had done the work before ? I am currently
>>> struggling on how to do it properly when installing python module
>>> (what is the layout, how do you know the python target installation
>>> directory...)
>>
>> Are you talking about using cmake to *build the deb*  or just about
>> packaging a project using cmake?
>>
>> If you are talking about the former, please forget it.
>
> What do you mean ? Indeed I want the whole process from src to .deb
> handled by cmake.

Then please forget it. That doesn't make proper debs.

> I made some prelimianary versions at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137895&package_id=197047&release_id=603764

> You need to use cmake 2.6.0 (none of the dpkg-* utils are needed in
> the process).

And this is where the cmake folks are wrong (I once wrote them a long
email about it).

>
> But if you take the souce tarball, dpkg-buildpackage should work too. Ref:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-med@lists.debian.org/msg03663.html

I stopped looking when
 * no builddepenencies except cmake and debhelper
 * one package filled with development packages and stuff.

/Sune