On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Nathan Scott wrote: > > > Actually some advice would be great, having had an initial look into > > > this one now. Patch below shows the basic split we'll need to make > > > the architecture independent packages generated separately, but I'm > > > not sure how to fit that split into the rest of the rules file (I get > > > the same sort of errors with a change like this in place no matter > > > what I try - maybe its obvious to someone more deb knowledgeable?). > > > > I have not tested the patch but I see why it would not work. > > > > Try putting "dh_builddeb" somewhere in binary-indep, otherwise the > > actual .deb packages will not be created. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Taa. I see problems in the binary-indep target before the build reaches > that stage though. The debian/rules uses dh_install(1) - in particular, > it relies on this behaviour from the man page... > > On the other hand, maybe you have a large package that builds > multiple binary packages. You can use the upstream Makefile to > install it all into debian/tmp, and then use dh_install to copy > directories and files from there into the proper package build > directories. > > And dh_install fails when used by the binary-indep target - it requires > files from both binary-indep and binary-arch, I think.
That should not happen unless you are creating packages that have to conflict at each other because they contain the same files. > Does that mean dh_install can no longer be used for these targets > as described above or does that stage need to done elsewhere? > (before dh_builddeb I'm sure) You can probably use dh_install here, but I see that you are using dh_install with --sourcedir. While this is supported, I would recommend that you do "make install" to debian/tmp first (not to debian/firstpackage) and use the already existing debian/*.install files to tell dh_install which files go to which packages. This usually makes debian/rules to be more simple and easier to understand, and it also makes the future switch to "dh" easier. Thanks.
