Hi, I have to say that I am new to the world of Linux and am on a very steep learning curve as I have to package a shared library which I have written in 'C' as well as a Python package. I have successfully created a deb file today which has taken much work. However, it appears it's empty and so installs nothing.
Having read a lot of material on the subject there are still some parts that confuse me. I have a million questions but I will try to break it down. So, there's a shared library written in C (laika.c and exp.c --> liblaika.so.1.0.0). This is produced from a makefile and installed to /usr/lib. The makefile also places laika.h in /usr/include. DESTDIR is set up correctly I think. Now as I understand, debian/rules calls this makefile (make install). But, I also have a build.sh script which I have used to install the library, before attempting to make a deb package. This actually worked well, but it's no deb package. My workflow is something like: Create tarball from source:* tar -cwzf laika_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz laika-1.0.0* run dh_make in laika-1.0.0 : *dh_make -s -c gpl3 --native* run debuild: *debuild -us -uc* So here are my questions: 1) Should I be trying to use the build.sh script at all? If not, I need a mechanism for copying some files in the deb package (a udev rule). I know I can do this in debian/rules - more reading required. 2) Should I use dh_make -s or dh_make -l (single binary or library)? I used -l as you might expect but ran into all sorts of problems with laika-dev asking for files in usr/include which I didn't understand. 3) Also, I have used dh_make --native to stop quilt complaining about upstream modifications. I don't understand this part yet so have bypassed it. Is this an issue? This will probably get me going. I originally planned to have the same deb contain some python packages but I have decided to split it up so the python stuff gets a package of its own which depends on laika-1.0.0. Is this the right way to go? You can find the partially working code here- note the *empty-binary-package *: https://github.com/eightdog/sandbox.git Here is the log of the build: pi@raspberrypi /home/shares/public/sandbox/laika-1.0.0 $ debuild -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage: source package laika dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0.0 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Andy Bakin <a...@eightdog.com> dpkg-source --before-build laika-1.0.0 dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture armhf fakeroot debian/rules clean dh clean dh_testdir dh_auto_clean dh_clean rm -f debian/laika.substvars rm -f debian/laika.*.debhelper rm -rf debian/laika/ rm -f debian/*.debhelper.log rm -f debian/files find . \( \( -type f -a \ \( -name '#*#' -o -name '.*~' -o -name '*~' -o -name DEADJOE \ -o -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*.bak' \ -o -name '.*.orig' -o -name .*.rej -o -name '.SUMS' \ -o -name TAGS -o \( -path '*/.deps/*' -a -name '*.P' \) \ \) -exec rm -f {} \; \) -o \ \( -type d -a -name autom4te.cache -prune -exec rm -rf {} \; \) \) rm -f *-stamp dpkg-source -b laika-1.0.0 dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (native)' dpkg-source: info: building laika in laika_1.0.0.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: building laika in laika_1.0.0.dsc debian/rules build dh build dh_testdir dh_auto_configure dh_auto_build dh_auto_test fakeroot debian/rules binary dh binary dh_testroot dh_prep rm -f debian/laika.substvars rm -f debian/laika.*.debhelper rm -rf debian/laika/ dh_installdirs install -d debian/laika dh_auto_install dh_install dh_installdocs install -g 0 -o 0 -d debian/laika/usr/share/doc/laika install -g 0 -o 0 -m 644 -p debian/copyright debian/laika/usr/share/doc/laika/copyright dh_installchangelogs install -o 0 -g 0 -p -m644 debian/changelog debian/laika/usr/share/doc/laika/changelog dh_installexamples dh_installman dh_installcatalogs dh_installcron dh_installdebconf install -o 0 -g 0 -d debian/laika/DEBIAN dh_installemacsen dh_installifupdown dh_installinfo dh_pysupport dh_pysupport: This program is deprecated, you should use dh_python2 instead. Migration guide: http://deb.li/dhs2p /usr/share/python-support/private/movemodules debian/laika dh_installinit dh_installmenu dh_installmime dh_installmodules dh_installlogcheck dh_installlogrotate dh_installpam dh_installppp dh_installudev dh_installwm dh_installxfonts dh_installgsettings dh_bugfiles dh_ucf dh_lintian dh_gconf dh_icons dh_perl dh_usrlocal dh_link dh_compress cd debian/laika chmod a-x usr/share/doc/laika/changelog gzip -9nf usr/share/doc/laika/changelog cd '/home/shares/public/sandbox/laika-1.0.0' dh_fixperms find debian/laika -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chown --no-dereference 0:0 find debian/laika ! -type l -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod go=rX,u+rw,a-s find debian/laika/usr/share/doc -type f ! -regex 'debian/laika/usr/share/doc/[^/]*/examples/.*' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod 644 find debian/laika/usr/share/doc -type d -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod 755 find debian/laika/usr/share/man debian/laika/usr/man/ debian/laika/usr/X11*/man/ -type f -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r ch mod 644 find debian/laika -perm -5 -type f \( -name '*.so.*' -or -name '*.so' -or -name '*.la' -or -name '*.a' \) -print0 2>/dev/nu ll | xargs -0r chmod 644 find debian/laika/usr/include -type f -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod 644 find debian/laika/usr/share/applications -type f -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod 644 find debian/laika -perm -5 -type f \( -name '*.cmxs' \) -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod 644 find debian/laika/usr/lib/perl5 debian/laika/usr/share/perl5 -type f -perm -5 -name '*.pm' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod a-X find debian/laika/usr/lib -type f -name '*.ali' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0r chmod uga-w dh_strip dh_makeshlibs rm -f debian/laika/DEBIAN/shlibs dh_shlibdeps dh_installdeb dh_gencontrol echo misc:Depends= >> debian/laika.substvars dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -Tdebian/laika.substvars -Pdebian/laika dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package laika: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} chmod 644 debian/laika/DEBIAN/control chown 0:0 debian/laika/DEBIAN/control dh_md5sums (cd debian/laika >/dev/null ; find . -type f ! -regex './DEBIAN/.*' -printf '%P\0' | LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums) >/dev/null chmod 644 debian/laika/DEBIAN/md5sums chown 0:0 debian/laika/DEBIAN/md5sums dh_builddeb dpkg-deb --build debian/laika .. dpkg-deb: building package `laika' in `../laika_1.0.0_armhf.deb'. dpkg-genchanges >../laika_1.0.0_armhf.changes dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload dpkg-source --after-build laika-1.0.0 dpkg-buildpackage: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is included) Now running lintian... W: laika: empty-binary-package Finished running lintian. pi@raspberrypi /home/shares/public/sandbox/laika-1.0.0 $
