Hi all, I'm trying to put together my own package for gnu-smalltalk, and I'm getting there, but I have some general questions.
The current package is split into a main package and a docs package. It's based on gst 1.8.1 and I'm working with 1.95.4. There are some major changes in the package wrt automake or autoconf (or something, I'm actually not to familiar with the process, which is the problem). Basically, when I build my package it makes the correct packages, but the docs are included in both packages. Looking at the diffs for the old package seems to be getting me nowhere, because the build method looks totally different to me. I guess I just need help locating what parts in the Makefile.in (I guess that's what controls this) are involved. I'm sure that's totally vague, but if someone could point me in the right direction or let me know what info is required to help out that would be great. Should I just read up on automake/autoconf, or is there some simple way to do this? So that's one particular problem I'm having, but I was also wondering about the general concepts... When you have a single source bundle with a set of makefiles that build and install everything, what's the correct way to split things up? It looks like the current maintainer just commented out the docs installs and moved them into debian/rules, but what if the split was more complicated? I've gathered that debhelper throws the docs into the -doc package because it's marked arch-indep, but what if you had multiple architecture-dependant packages? How does debian/rules know what goes in which package? It's all magic to me at the moment... I haven't seen any docs that cover this stuff yet - if anyone can point them out... Anyhow, I have some other major problems, but I should probably not flood the list with my troubles just yet. Any help is appreciated, thanks. (Gonna go RTFM as well...) -- Brett
