Ben Hill [u] wrote on 20/10/2004 00:16:
I'm building a package, but the makefile needs a commandline argument to
build a particular type of binary. How should I run dh_make etc to do
this?
?
dh_make only builds a base set of files in debian/
Following that, customization is certainly needed. The building is done
by debian/rules (a makefile itself).
If you take a look at that file after dh_make is done, you will find a
rule to build "build-stamp" in there, which is likely to look like this:
>> build-stamp: configure-stamp
>> dh_testdir
>>
>> # Add here commands to compile the package.
>> $(MAKE)
>> #/usr/bin/docbook-to-man debian/spampd.sgml > spampd.1
>>
>> touch build-stamp
That $(MAKE) line is usually simply calling "make". If your upstream
source needs to be build by calling "make linux", simply append "linux"
to that like so that it reads
$(MAKE) linux
cu,
sven
PS: Read the Debian developer docs, understand how building a software
on Linux in general works. You seem to have missed parts of both topics.
