Okay, this is my 3rd package, now I need help...
On Sep 9, Terry Hancock (hancock@anansispaceworks.com) wrote:
> My immediate question:
> I need to build a dual binary (a runtime and a development)
> package from a single source package, called "wcstools",
> which I am creating with dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage.
>
> I've seen various references to how these should be "built
> in debian/wcstools and debian/wcstools-dev" instead of
> just in "debian/tmp" -- but I *haven't* found out how to
> make that happen. Is there something else I should be
> reading, or have I missed the section in what I have read
> (which is the Debian Policy, Debian NMG, and Debian
> Developer's Reference -- I admit I didn't read them
> word-for-word, but I'm fairly certain I would've found this
> if it were in there in an easy to find place. Or maybe it's
> in front of my nose, I've been wrong before.).
The approach I took with a multi-binary package that I created from scratch
was to do the configure and make, then set DESTDIR to $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp,
export it, and do the make install. This puts everything into the directory
hierarchy below debian/tmp. So far, nothing package specific. Then, I told
the debhelper tools where to put things by creating files <package>.install
for each binary package, then calling dh_install once for each package with
the option -p<package>. This makes it install the files for each package into
the appropriate subdirectory of debian/ for that package. See the dh_install
man page for more on this. Several more of the debhelper commands act on
<package>.<dh_extension> files to do package specific things. Use whichever
are appropriate for your packages.
My rules file is symmetric with respect to the packages, i.e., none ultimately
build out of debian/tmp, all build out of debian/<package> subdirectories. On
the other hand, some other multi-binary packages I adopted build one package
out of debian/tmp and the rest from debian/<package>, so I guess that means
it's up to you.
There is one each rules, control and changelog file for the source package,
not one per binary package.
Disclaimer: IANAE, but I think I have a pretty clean build setup for a large
package. I'm hoping someone else will take that as a challenge and tell me
how to make it (aplus-fsf) even better :-)
--
Neil Roeth
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