On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:00:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> There have been several replies to this, but none of them quite tell you
> exactly what to do, so let me take a stab at that.
>
> First, dh_installdirs is not actually useful for solving this particular
> problem . . .
Thank you, thank y
Russ Allbery writes:
> I guess I should say, for the sake of completeness, that you *can* make
> dh_installdirs do this with the -P flag. But I would find that
> confusing; I think an explicit install -d is easier to understand. And,
> regardless, dh_installdirs isn't normally run before dh_aut
Russ Allbery writes:
> First, dh_installdirs is not actually useful for solving this particular
> problem since dh_installdirs creates directories in the package staging
> area. Your problem is happening prior to that; make install of the
> upstream source into debian/tmp is failing because it's
T o n g writes:
> Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories?
> The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but
> to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:
> install -s -m 755 autogb /exp
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:08 PM, T o n g wrote:
> Ok, so I read the manpage of dh_installdirs(1), which I included below.
> But still how can I use it to create patch that I can send upstream to
> support creating $DESTDIR/usr/bin and so on, as suggested by Paul?
The two topics are completely sep
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:23:42 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> Is it possible to alter the following `debian/rules` file so that it
>> plays nicely with such upstream Makefiles?
>
> Yes. You want to use dh_installdirs(1). I suggest you read its manpage.
> Mind you, you won't need to touch debian/rule
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, T o n g wrote:
> The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but
> to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:
In addition to the solution suggested by Gergely Nagy, please send
upstream a patch to support creating
T o n g writes:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories?
>
> The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but
> to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:
>
> install -s -m 755
Hi,
Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories?
The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but
to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:
install -s -m 755 autogb /export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/zh-
autoconvert
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