Re: building a new debian package
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:05:29PM +0200, S?ren Boll Overgaard <debian@macmad.dk> spake forth:
> > To answer your question: You have to set the DESTDIR variable when you
> > install the binaries in the package build directory. Most probably
> > this means calling "make install --destdir=debian/name-of-package"
> > instead of just "make install"
>
> Below is a cut from the debian/rules file:
>
> [...]
> install: build
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean -k
> dh_installdirs
>
> # Add here commands to install the package into debian/wmcpuload.
> $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/wmcpuload
> # $(MAKE) install destdir=$(CURDIR)/debian/wmcpuload
>
> [...]
>
> I've tried both of the $(MAKE)-lines above, but none of them seems to be
> working. Is there anything else I should do to put the single binary in
> /usr/X11/bin ?
with prefix=/usr and DESTIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/wmcpuload you should get
everything installed where appropriate.
Note that /usr/X11R6/bin is deprecated. The binary should go into /usr/bin.
The alternative is to add the /usr portion to the prefix for *install only*,
i.e.
$(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/wmcpuload/usr
but in the case where DESTDIR's supported, this may be suboptimal (if you
have config files in /etc you'll probably have to specify
sysconfdir=$(CURDIR)/debian/wmcpuload/etc, files in /var you'll need to set
another variable, so on so forth). So DESTDIR is really the way to go.
--
Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>
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