Re: errors building a .deb

[Luk Claes <Luk.Claes@UGent.be>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Sonia Hamilton wrote:

> I'm building (my first) .deb file from source (Closes: #304450), and
> getting this error when I run debuild. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing
> wrong?
>
> > ...
> > dh_installdirs
> >         install -d debian/grabc
> >         install -d debian/grabc/usr/bin
> > # Add here commands to install the package into debian/grabc.
> > /usr/bin/make install
> > DESTDIR=/home/sonia/debian/grabc/grabc-1.1/debian/grabc
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sonia/debian/grabc/grabc-1.1'
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> > ...
>
> 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.

Cheers

Luk