[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Building deb packages for the Nokia 770 is very easy

[From: Stephen DeGabrielle]

Thanks Armin,

It's good to see how these things fit together.

I'd really like to just use  'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' but it
spits errors at me;

My problem seems to be that I use ./configure;make;make install to compile.

the Maemo Tutorial seems to want me to
'Run autogen.sh to generate application build configures: '

I don't have an autogen.sh to run to I fell back on to good old
./configure;mke;make install

I believe this is why my attempts at a standard package fail;
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spdegabrielle at ubuntu:~$ /scratchbox/login
Welcome to maemo Development Platform 1.1!

For further information please check out the official maemo website at
http://www.maemo.org/.

Copyright (c) 2005 Nokia
[sbox-SDK_ARM: ~] > cd plt
[sbox-SDK_ARM: ~/plt] > cd src/
[sbox-SDK_ARM: ~/plt/src] > ls
Makefile     README      config.h.in  config.status  lt    mzscheme  wxxt
Makefile.in  autogen.sh  config.log   configure      mred  wxcommon
[sbox-SDK_ARM: ~/plt/src] > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open debian/changelog to find
format: No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package
[sbox-SDK_ARM: ~/plt/src] >
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[I even went to the extent of building from the latest stable source
package for plt-scheme from the debian packages repository. ]

I am tempted to package it up by hand - do you think I could just make
up the contents of the 'control' file?
eg
--control--
Package: mzscheme
Version: 209
Section: unstable
Priority: optional
Architecture: arm
Depends: maemo
Installed-Size: what here????
Maintainer: Stephen De Gabrielle <Stephen.DeGabrielle AT gmail.com>
Description: mzscheme
--end-

What do you think?
(I would really just prefer  'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' )

Stephen



On 3/28/06, Armin M. Warda <Armin.Warda at web.de> wrote:
>   Hi Stephen,
>
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:27, Stephen DeGabrielle wrote:
> > [...] as I have not worked out how to package it yet [...]
>
> Building deb packages for the Nokia 770 is actually very easy,
> if you know how. This posting explains the basic structure of
> a simple package:
>
> http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2006-March/000853.html
>
>   regards, Armin.
>
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Stephen De Gabrielle