[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Problems packaging a shared library

[From: Teemu Harju]

Thanks Vladislav and Guillem, your notes were really helpful. Now I'm
uderstanding debian packaging little better.

- Teemu

On 10/2/06, Guillem Jover <guillem.jover at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 21:06:05 +0300, ext Teemu Harju wrote:
> > I'm struggling trying to make a .deb package out of libupnp
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/upnp/). It compiles nicely in the
> > scratchbox ARM target, but when I try to make a package out of it with
> > dpkg-buildpackage the package contains basically only the directories.
>
> Have you checked <http://packages.qa.debian.org/libupnp>?
>
> > Here's what I've done...
> >
> > 1) run dh_make and select the library option
> > 2) edit the debian/control file
> > 3) run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>
> > The debian/tmp directory then contains the compiled library and dev
> > files, but the created .deb package does not contain those.
>
> You'd have to use "dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp" and
> add a proper .install file.
>
> > Is there something I'm doing wrong? libupnp installs nicely with
> > "./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install" so I think that,
> > e.g., the debian/rules file wouldn't need anything special. Am I
> > right?
>
> Also I suppose you have DESTDIR already on make install.
>
> regards,
> guillem
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Teemu Harju
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