Re: libhello?

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Saturday 30 December 2006 10:25, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:57:40 +0600
>
> Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> wrote:
> > I'm looking for the Debian package which may be used as an 'hello
> > world' example of properly packaged shared library.
>
> (Nervous about putting head above parapet, but)

Hahaha ;-)

> I'm not clear here whether you mean package for distribution or package
> for Debian. I think you mean the upstream being packaged cleanly under
> autotools but then I'm not sure why you want the Debian package as the
> demo, not the upstream .orig.tar.gz.
>
> QOF doesn't use any extraneous config or non-autotools configuration
> upstream, it builds cleanly through ./autogen.sh, ./configure, make,
> make check, make install, make dist, make distcheck.

Just to mention that such a bootstrap task could also be automated by the 
`autoproject', coming from the package of the same name. The result is not 
ultimately polished, but it is perfectly usable.

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