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 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 = $(CURDIR)/debian/$(PACKAGE) Using this method, you can substitute $(PACKAGE) for the package name, which may make your rules file a little prettier... Please see this page for this and other tricks: http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/debhelper.html#note_on_paths Cheers, Jonathan