Re: (better explaining) Re: Hi! I need faqs and tutorials for make gcc*.deb's
I will look and trie! Thank's for your ultra quickly response, too:-)
I'm printing many doc's to give his "in handy" ( the policy will more
one ;-) I'll trie hard Masters! :-)
Thank's A Lot!
[]'s of seventy round's, Dani:-)
ps: ahamm, what is "pacakges.qa.d.o" ? i'm not understood this
abbreviature... Thank's
2005/7/9, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:44:40PM -0300, Dani wrote:
> > Hi! Thank's for your ultra quickly response:-)
> >
> > For now, I have more one question: I need learn about
> > * "Multiple"-binary * in sense of maint-guide. (from one [or two:]
> > souce tarball,
> > to many binaries.deb)
> >
> > The maint-guide teaching me about "single"-binary but nothing
> > about "multiple" ...
> >
> > My question is : where I find docs, tutorials, etc about use
> > of dh_make for making multiple binaries ?
> dh_make is just a template, and the difference between what it outputs
> for "single binary" is very similar to what it outputs for "multiple
> binary".
>
> The difference is entirely within ./debian/control. Check the policy
> manual for the definition of that file. In short, the first entry
> describes the "source" package, and each successive entry describes a
> binary package which is built from that source package.
> ./debian/rules might also be a bit different (in the argument to
> dpkg-buildpackage maybe).
>
> Indeed, gcc will be a complicated beast to package for a personal
> project. You might also refer to some OTHER existing packages, which
> creates multiple binary packages, as a reference. A list of 200
> candidates is given by:
>
> apt-cache search data |grep -- -data
>
> openssh and gaim also come to mind. (Check the "binary packages"
> section of pacakges.qa.d.o).
>
> Cheers,
> Justin
>
> > 2005/7/9, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>:
> > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:17:01AM -0300, Dani wrote:
> > > > hi! my system is a Debian Testing. I use a Athlon Xp1.7 (x86) and
> > > > I already installed the tools give in "maint-guide". I tried hard _but_ *all*
> > > > tutorials that I encounter use this estructure:
> > > >
> > > > # apt-get source gcc-X.Y
> > > > # cd gcc-X.Y
> > > > # dpkg-buildpackage ( or debuild )
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > But this is _not_ what I need. my need is take a gcc from gcc.gnu.org
> > > > and make a (more or less) complete debianization and of course in a
> > > > gcc that NOT yet packaged for Debian. for now, this is for my personal use.
> > >
> > > Your best bet is *probably* going to be to port the existing packaging
> > > scripts for gcc to the version of gcc you want to build. That may or may
> > > not be simple (gcc is a pretty complex package), but it's the standard
> > > method of making packages of new versions of existing packages.
> > >
> > > - Matt
> > >
> > >
> > > BodyID:1139165.2.n.logpart (stored separately)
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[]'s Dani:-)
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