Re: Building a source tarball..
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:38:12AM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:48:29 +0000
> Kevin.Bewley@camr.org.uk wrote:
> > to know, is there a way to do the same thing with a foo.tar.gz? Then
> > do a dpkg -i foo.deb? Anyone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Or should I stick with:
> > ./configure
> > ./make
> > ./ make install
> > ?
>
> Yes, there is a way, but I don't use it so I don't know a lot about it.
>
> I found debmake by searching the Debian site, and it sounds like what
> you want.
Avoid debmake; dh-make, which uses the more modern debhelper commands,
is more likely to be suitable.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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