Re: How to deal with configs in non-standard locations

[Shawn Sörbom <shawn@sorbom.com>]

Worked great!
Thanks!

On Monday, May 18, 2015 14:05:55 Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Shawn Sörbom <shawn@sorbom.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am playing with the Snes9x source code, and I can't get it to compile
> > via
> > debhelper. Snes9x has its config files in a subfolder of the sources
> > called
> > "unix".
> > What is the proper way of overriding dh_auto_install and dh_auto_build to
> > point debhelper to the correct location?
> > 
> > 
> > I have tried placing these overrides in my debian/rules file, but they
> > don't seem to work:
> > 
> > override_dh_auto_configure:
> >         DESTDIR=$(shell pwd)/debian/snes9x
> >         cd $(shell pwd)/unix
> >         autoreconf -i
> >         configure --prefix=$(DESTDIR)
> > 
> > override_dh_auto_build:
> >          cd $(shell pwd)/unix
> >          make
> 
> %:
>     dh $@ --sourcedirectory=$(CURDIR)/unix
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent