-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-08-08 15:45, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . > I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz >
Hi, Thanks for your interest in Debian, unfortunately I do not have a lot of time so this message will be rather brief. I have added the mail to debian-ment...@l.d.o which is our dedicated mailing lists for how to do packaging and put you in CC, since I was unsure whether you would receive the email otherwise. > > For the library package I followed the Ubuntu instructions at : > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic > (I first generated a .deb for the hello program and it went ok) > For the library I did : > 1. got the tar of libvirt . made a copy to orig.tar.gz > 2. untarred the tared library . cd to the untarred code > 3. there ran : dh_make -e your.maintai...@address . This created the > debian directory. Got no bad > commnets from lintian. > > 4. ran : debuild -S -us -uc (to avoid gpg for now) > That generated the ../*.dsc and ../*.diff.gz . Looks ok. > > 5. ran: sudo pbuilder build ../*.dsc ( changed the debian/rules to have > ./configure --with-xen=no otherwise > it complained about xs_read missing in libxenstore - which exists . > libxen3, libxen3-deb are installed ok) > > But now during the ./confugre run I get the following message : > > ..... > checking for pkg-config... no > checking libxml2 xml2-config >= 2.5.0 ... configure: error: Could not find > libxml2 anywhere (see config.log for details). > make: *** [config.status] Error 1 > dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 > pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package > -> Aborting with an error > -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem > -> unmounting proc filesystem > -> cleaning the build env > ... > > pkg-config is installed and the newest . libxml2 is installed and newest > (/usr/lib/) and xml2-config --version gives 2.6.32 > > so why does the system complain : Could not find libxml2 anywhere . BTW: > config.log was not generated yet . > > Any idea/ help ? > > thanks > > Zvi Dubitzky > Email:d...@il.ibm.com > IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182 > Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL > > > dh_make cannot deduce every Build-Dependency of your package, which is likely to be your problem. As I recall (but I have not used it in a while) it only generate a set of template files to get you started. Also pbuilder builds your package in a "clean chroot" where it only installs the packages listed in Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep of your debian/control (+ the "build-essential" packages). So you probably have to open the debian/control file and add the correct build dependencies there. I apologize for the short answer with no reference to relevant information, but I am really out of time :) I am about to leave DebConf10 (like a lot of other Debian people). ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREIAAYFAkxewlcACgkQVCqoiq1YlqykKACfTId9Pw0Q2yerPPeuUXnyZbFU QIAAoMV8gYAjuecmaHjkN8bdvPdwENWX =GAMJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5ec258.8080...@thykier.net
