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Re: errors building a .deb



On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:58:34AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> * On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > Obviously, I need to fix up my install target, but where/how? In the
> > > makefile that comes with the tgz, or debian/rules?
> > 
> > It looks like the Makefile in the tgz has no 'install' target?
> > 
> > It might work without mentioning install, to be sure we have to see the
> > Makefile.
> 
> Here's the source package Makefile. I didn't realise I could change
> stuff in the source package - I thought only in the debian/ directory.

Nah, you can range all over the place and change things.  It all gets
recorded in the .diff.gz file in the end.

The install target of the debian/rules is intended to move files from where
they are in the build tree into the debian/tmp (or debian/<pkgname>)
directory.  Since the grabc makefile doesn't have an install target,
obviously the upstream author intended for this step to be done some other
way (perhaps by hand?).  You just replicate that within your debian/rules,
with appropriate adjustments for the destination.

- Matt

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