running 'libtool --finish /usr/local/lib/rep' after the make install
registers the path for debian. The fail with checkinstall seems to occur
right before the first warning to use 'libtool --finish /usr/local/lib/rep'.
So much for keeping it simple. Guess I'll have to go with complex. C'est la
  vie.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  Am 09.06.2011 17:19, schrieb Darth Emacs:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hmm... why don't you use the official packaging scripts?
>> (dpkg-buildpackage
>> -rfakeroot from a GIT checkout)
>>
>> Dunno what's the issue with checkinstall.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>
> Simple is better than complex.
>
>  Complex is better than complicated.
>
>  -- exerpt from Tim Peter's 'The Zen Of Python'
>
>  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
>
>  checkinstall serves the purpose
>
>
> mostly, but it's known to fail with several packages. The issue is
> somewhere in checkinstall.
>
>


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