[maemo-developers] Generated .deb package doesn't contain the executable file (was SPIM ported to Chinook)

[From: Daniel Martín Yerga]

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Hi.

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:32:41 +0100
"Andrea Grandi" <a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the generated debian/control file: http://pastebin.ca/781435
> this is the SPIM Makefile: http://pastebin.ca/781447
> and this is the generated debian/rules: http://pastebin.ca/781444

I am not an expert packer, so I can say something that isn't true.

In the debian/rules of Debian distro for spim, the install order is
'dh_install' instead of '$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/spim install'
in your debian/rules file. That could be the problem. I suppose
changing only it should give you the same problem, I do not know.

Another thing that I have noticed is that if debian/compat is 4,
DESTDIR it would be like yours 'DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/spim',
but if there isn't debian/compat or have other value, it could install
something (for example binary files) in 'DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp'
and others (for example documents, for dh_installdocs order) in
debian/spim. Or on the contrary, I don't remember very well.
Something similar has happened to me sometime.

I hope that what I say isn't a barbarity ;)

Cheers.
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Daniel Martín Yerga
dyerga at gmail.com
http://yerga.net
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