Re: First package: A library

1998-05-26 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 03:35:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Adam> I use the following to take version numbers from the changelog: > Adam> SRC_VERSION := $(shell head -1 debian/changelog | cut '-d ' -f 2 | sed > 's/[()]//g') > > Why not go one step further and use the acceted in

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Adam" == Adam P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Personally I think it's a bad policy to look at your directory Adam> name to determine your version number; too error prone and Adam> unforgiving of strange but useful conditions. I would, actually, call it a bug. Adam>

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-26 Thread Adam P. Harris
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use in the Makefile: > VER = $(shell expr `pwd` : '.*-\([0-9.]*\)') > MVER= ${shell expr `pwd` : '.*-\([0-9]*\).[0-9]*'} Personally I think it's a bad policy to look at your directory name to determine your version number; too error prone an

RE: First package: A library

1998-05-21 Thread Mike Goldman
Thanks to everyone for the helpful advice. It looks like I will be giving Rob Browning primary authority for this package, and will hopefully act in an 'understudy' role until I am a bit more proficient with Debian packaging. While I could try to experiment until I get it right, he indicated a nee

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-20 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:53:47PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -shared -Wl,-soname,libgc4.so.4 -o libgc4.so.4.13alpha1 > > add "-lc", and run dpkg-shlibdeps on the library with > ${shlibs:Depends} in the Depends: line in debian/control. Absolut

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-19 Thread James Troup
[ Just a couple of comments, on an otherwise v. helpful answer ] Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So what special work do library packages need, before I get in too far > > over my head? [ ... ] > link the shared lib using > -shared -Wl,-soname,libgc4.so.4 -o libgc4.so.4.13alp

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-19 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 09:23:38PM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > > libgc4 and libgc4-dev you should consider if you want to build a libgc4-dbg > [...] > -shared -Wl,-soname,libgc4.so.4 -o libgc4.so.4.13alpha1 -shared -Wl,-soname,libgc.so.4 -o libgc.so.4.13alpha1 Sorry, while the major ve

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-19 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Mike Goldman wrote: > > So, jumping in with both feet, I went ahead and extracted the source and > ran deb-make in directory 'gc-4.13alpha1'. > > In the debian subdirectory, the control file designated the Source: as > 'gc' (and this seems quite correct),

Re: First package: A library

1998-05-19 Thread Shaleh
As a recent adopter of a few lib packages I am still working all of this out (there is not any GOOD documentation on it). The foo1 name is supposed (I believe) to indicate its soname. So if your lib if libfoo.so.1 it is package foo1 or libfoo1. If it was libfoo.so.2 or 0 the number would change.