Re: install path for a deb package (installed compiled binary files)
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 05:20, Lars E. D. Jensen wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I'm trying to make a deb package for the first time.
>
> My rules script looks like this:
If you would put the entire package in public web/ftp space, it would be
easier to help you. Any number of things could be wrong (in fact, it
sounds like you do have at least a couple of things broken) and the
snippet you posted is not nearly enough context.
If you don't have a public place to put the package, you should at least
post the entire rules file.
In general, you want to do two invocations of make. The one in your
build should prefix with the real destination directory on the target
system (i.e. relative to "/" on the system the package will be installed
on) and the one in your install should be prefixed with the build
directory. To do the latter, you must be careful that the variable you
pass to the make is actually obeyed by the upstream Makefile. DESTDIR
is normal for packages built with GNU autotools, but not all packages
have autotools build systems.
As for the distclean problem, it sounds like you don't, in fact, have a
GNU autotools build system (possibly a hand-rolled Makefile?) and
therefore only a 'clean' target is provided. So in your clean target in
rules, just make the upstream clean target instead of 'distclean'.
I am guessing you did a dh_make. A word of warning: it is folly to run
any tool that autogenerates code without knowing what every line of the
generated code does. Study the results of the dh_make carefully until
you understand every single line. Don't assume that dh_make will
produce meaningful results without tweaking.
Ben
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synrg at debian dot org
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