Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Why not reverse the two commands: override_dh_installman: /somepath/create-a-man-page debian/packagename.1 dh_installman -- Let dh_installman install the generated manpage. To my mind this violates modularity, in that *building* the man page is happening during what is

Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ole Wolf o...@naturloven.dk writes: I am building a package where I'm overriding the man page generation to include man pages that are generated at build time. A simplified version of the override in my debian/rules is: override_dh_installman: dh_installman --

Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-01 Thread Ole Wolf
I am building a package where I'm overriding the man page generation to include man pages that are generated at build time. A simplified version of the override in my debian/rules is: override_dh_installman: dh_installman -- /somepath/create-a-man-page ${mandir}/man1/packagename.1

Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-01 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ole Wolf o...@naturloven.dk wrote: However, I don't know how to specify the target path for the man pages, which I've tentatively indicated by ${mandir} in the above snippet. I'm not using autoconf, which seems to set some path variables. This may only

Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-01 Thread Ole Wolf
Jonathan, fre, 01 06 2012 kl. 15:36 -0400, skrev Jonathan Yu: This may only be a partial help for you (you will still need to specify the /usr/... etc stuff), but this is the method we use in the Debian Perl group to build the path: PACKAGE = $(shell dh_listpackages) TMP =

Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:37:16 +0200, Ole Wolf wrote: PACKAGE = $(shell dh_listpackages) TMP = $(CURDIR)/debian/$(PACKAGE) Using this method, you can substitute $(PACKAGE) for the package name, which may make your rules file a little prettier... Thanks! It turns out I wasn't entirely