[maemo-developers] Debianisation help with packaging libgmphoult

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On 12/6/09 12:37 PM, Simon Pickering wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I've packaged up and pushed libgmp to extras-devel, but obviously made a
> mistake in the Debianisation as it's trying to install a file to my
> build directory (so don't try installing it yet). I can guess why the
> code I inserted is wrong, but can't work out what to put in to actually
> make it work. I've tried altering the rules file, but to no avail.
>
> We're talking about the debian/rules file in the install: section, which
> currently looks something like this (tabs removed).
>
> install: build-stamp install-prep
> $(MAKE) DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp -C build install
>
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmp3c2
> usr/lib/libgmp.so.*
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmp3c2
> usr/lib/libmp.so.*
>
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmpxx4ldbl
> usr/lib/libgmpxx.so.*
>
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmp3-dev
> usr/lib/lib*.so
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmp3-dev usr/lib/lib*.a
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmp3-dev
> usr/lib/lib*.la
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp -plibgmp3-dev usr/include
> dh_install --sourcedir=$(CURDIR)/build -plibgmp3-dev -Xgmp-mparam.h
> usr/include/gmp*.h
> # dh_install -plibgmp3-dev build/gmp-arm.h
> $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/include
>
> # Install upstream ChangeLog, AUTHORS, NEWS, and README only in -dev
> package
> dh_installchangelogs -plibgmp3-dev
> dh_installdocs -plibgmp3-dev AUTHORS NEWS README
>
>
> The build/packaging failure message is this:
> dh_install --sourcedir=/home/simon/build/Octave/gmp/gmp-4.3.1+dfsg/build
> -plibgmp3-dev -Xgmp-mparam.h usr/include/gmp*.h
> dh_install: libgmp3-dev missing files (usr/include/gmp*.h), aborting
>
> This part should install the arch specific header file (e.g. gmp-arm.h)
> from the $(CURDIR)/build directory. I put in the commented out line
> (just after the one I repeated above) which worked, but fails for the
> x86 build of course, so back to something generic.
>
> The gmp-arm.h file that I'm interested in installing does exist in the
> $(CURDIR)/build directory just in case you were wondering.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>    
Shouldn't CURDIR be defined earlier? It seems it is being defined 
_after_ you're doing dh_install.

I'll look a little more closely at the dh_install man page to see if I 
can help diagnose with a little more detail.

Jeremiah