On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:20:23PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > In one package (malaga) I finally settled on taking advantage of VPATH: > I simply configured and built it in different directories for different > set of options. I don't remember whether I had to patch upstream build > system, but if I did, the patch was small in any case. Very small? I found a 20k diff for 300k source, mostly configuire patches.
But the main difference is, you are not using debhelper at all. I find debhelper very convenient and would like to continue to use that. However, I have the same problem, and tried with the hints given here. In some places I have to force debhelper to do what I want, and I didn't always succeed. Ie dh_installdocs, dh_installinfo, dh_installchangelogs do not work too well with source unpacked in subdirs. If I enter the subdir before calling those debhelper functions, or in the installdocs case, add the subdir name to debian/docs, things are working a little better, but not yet perfect. ATM I am missing the debian changelog in my packages: auric.debian.org/~cts/moon-buggy/ Any hints appreciated. Is there a way to pass a subdir to dh_*? Didn't find it in the docs. Christian
