[maemo-developers] Debhelper 7

[From: Teemu Ikonen]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Jeremiah Foster
<jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 16:00, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
>> You can check out the sources by doing
>> git clone git://gitorious.org/maemo-pkg/debhelper.git
>> But, as said, the build fails.
>
> I know that Nokia sort of disables perl on the device - they might do that on the SDK as
> well. Have you installed the perl-moduels package as well as perl-base in the SDK?

Yes, I have the up to date versions of these. Anyway, this is a
maemofied source package, so the dependencies (with correct versions)
should be listed in the debian/control file.

The build fails with:

$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
./run dh binary
Unknown option: w
dh: unknown option; aborting


Since dh is a perl script, it would seem that perl in the SDK lacks
some feature it needs. I'm clueless with perl though, so I cannot say
where it actually fails.

Teemu


>>> Teemu Ikonen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to compile / port some C libraries from Debian to Maemo 5.
>>>> The actual compilation goes without problems, but the packaging
>>>> scripts use the (very nice) command sequencer functionality of
>>>> debhelper v. 7, while the SDK has only debhelper 5.
>
> This is excellent - I would love to see this in maemo because it makes the rules files so simple.
>
>>>>
>>>> There is an up-to-date 'maemofied' debhelper in maemo.gitorious.org,
>>>> but trying to compile it in the SDK fails miserably. The problem seems
>>>> to be related to perl, which is also of similar vintage (i.e.
>>>> obsolete) in the SDK.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else tried or managed to get debhelper 7 running on maemo
>>>> 5? Having to rewrite the packaging on every library I need would be a
>>>> major suck.
>>>>
>>>> Teemu
>
> Let me know how I can help. Perhaps post your error message here when building?
>
> Jeremiah