[maemo-developers] Packaging images into deb

[From: Guillem Jover]

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 10:17:12 -0500, ext Levi Bard wrote:
> # Example Makefile
> # The DESTDIR is important for dpkg

This is not only for dpkg or Debian, this is how proper upstream build
systems should behave, to ease packaging the software. It allows to
install in a different directory than the one it was built for, so
that you can relocate when creating the packages.

> all:
> 
> install:
>     mkdir -p $DESTDIR/my/image/directory
>     cp images/* $DESTDIR/my/image/directory
> # End Makefile

$DESTDIR is not going to do what you think it would, what you want is
$(DESTDIR) instead. Also you might want to use install calls instead
of mkdir and cp.

regards,
guillem