Re: .deb package for a library generation
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On 2010-08-08 15:45, Zvi Dubitzky wrote:
> I need to generate a Debian package for a library
> As an exercise I tried it with libvirt .
> I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz
>
Hi,
Thanks for your interest in Debian, unfortunately I do not have a lot of
time so this message will be rather brief.
I have added the mail to debian-mentors@l.d.o which is our dedicated
mailing lists for how to do packaging and put you in CC, since I was
unsure whether you would receive the email otherwise.
>
> For the library package I followed the Ubuntu instructions at :
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic
> (I first generated a .deb for the hello program and it went ok)
> For the library I did :
> 1. got the tar of libvirt . made a copy to orig.tar.gz
> 2. untarred the tared library . cd to the untarred code
> 3. there ran : dh_make -e your.maintainer@address . This created the
> debian directory. Got no bad
> commnets from lintian.
>
> 4. ran : debuild -S -us -uc (to avoid gpg for now)
> That generated the ../*.dsc and ../*.diff.gz . Looks ok.
>
> 5. ran: sudo pbuilder build ../*.dsc ( changed the debian/rules to have
> ./configure --with-xen=no otherwise
> it complained about xs_read missing in libxenstore - which exists .
> libxen3, libxen3-deb are installed ok)
>
> But now during the ./confugre run I get the following message :
>
> .....
> checking for pkg-config... no
> checking libxml2 xml2-config >= 2.5.0 ... configure: error: Could not find
> libxml2 anywhere (see config.log for details).
> make: *** [config.status] Error 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
> -> Aborting with an error
> -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
> -> unmounting proc filesystem
> -> cleaning the build env
> ...
>
> pkg-config is installed and the newest . libxml2 is installed and newest
> (/usr/lib/) and xml2-config --version gives 2.6.32
>
> so why does the system complain : Could not find libxml2 anywhere . BTW:
> config.log was not generated yet .
>
> Any idea/ help ?
>
> thanks
>
> Zvi Dubitzky
> Email:dubi@il.ibm.com
> IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182
> Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL
>
>
>
dh_make cannot deduce every Build-Dependency of your package, which is
likely to be your problem. As I recall (but I have not used it in a
while) it only generate a set of template files to get you started.
Also pbuilder builds your package in a "clean chroot" where it only
installs the packages listed in Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep of
your debian/control (+ the "build-essential" packages).
So you probably have to open the debian/control file and add the correct
build dependencies there.
I apologize for the short answer with no reference to relevant
information, but I am really out of time :)
I am about to leave DebConf10 (like a lot of other Debian people).
~Niels
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