Re: how remove leading / at dh_install ?

["François Févotte" <francois.fevotte@ensta.org>]

Hi,

On 12/11/06, andremachado <andremachado@techforce.com.br> wrote:
> So, it have to be an absolute path...

The dh_install man-page [1] seems to indicate that the paths given to
dh_install have to be relative:
> The name of  the files (or directories) to install should be given relative to the
> current directory, while the installation directory is given relative to the package
> build directory.

If your ./configure script requires an absolute path, you can provide
it an absolute path, but feed dh_install with a relative path
(provided that both paths are consistent).

Unless I misunderstood your problem, you could for exemple try something like:
# Relative path
BUILDDIR=debian/php-java-bridge
# Absolute path
DESTDIR = ${CURDIR}/${BUILDDIR}

# ./configure requires the absolute path
./configure --prefix=${DESTDIR}

# dh_install uses the relative path
dh_install ${BUILDDIR}/$(PHP_EXT_DIR)/JavaBridge.war  var/lib/tomcat5/webapps

Cheers,
 François

[1] http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/Linux/man1/dh_install.1.html