[maemo-developers] Help with writing a Makefile?

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext David Hazel wrote:
> Following the advice I received from the maemo-developers mailing list,
> I've restructured my application directory to resemble the MaemoPad
> example, but now I seem to be having problems getting the autogen stuff
> to work without giving errors. Rather than try and track down problems
> that really don't have anything to do with getting a Debian package
> working, I've decided that I would rather write a Makefile from scratch.
> However, I'm uncertain what it needs to contain in my case, given the
> files and directory structure that I have.
> 
> Here are my application's folders and files:
> 
> eml-1.0.0/
> 	eml (the application binary, built separately)
> 	data/
> 		com.nokia.eml.service
> 		eml.desktop
> 		icons/
> 			26x26/
> 				eml.png
...
> 	debian/
...
> I want to create a .deb that installs all of the above into the right
> places and acts on the postinst and eml.links scripts. What does my
> Makefile need to contain to achieve this?

When your debian/rules[1] file calls the source makefile it tells
under which prefix these files should be installed.  Then in
the makefile just copy the files into appropriate place under
that prefix, i.e. do something like this I think:
---- debian/rules -----
...
install: build
         dh_testdir
         dh_testroot
         dh_clean -k
         dh_installdirs
         $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/sp-error-visualizer
...
---- Makefile ---------
install:
	install -m 644 data/eml.desktop $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/applications/hildon
	install -m 644 data/icons/26x26/eml.png 
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26/hildon
-----------------------

If you build several binary packages out of the same source package,
you need to specify which files are installed and included into
which package (with debian/*.install and debian/*.files files).


[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html#s-rules


> Thanks in advance for any help you can give, even if it is only to point
> me at some online documentation that will help me.


	- Eero

If you still dabble with Autotools, you might find this interesting:
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2006-August/005316.html