I've forwarded this message of mine to this group and will be looking forward to any help I can get.
I put the following line in for where to install the library routines in the makefile: GHCDSTLIB = debian/tmp/lib/`ghc --version | tr -d "a-zA-Z ,"`/Fudgets It seems to work. Shawn Garbett ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: New Package Developer Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:41:13 +0200 From: Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Shawn P. Garbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to put together a new package for Debian. I know very little > about it other than an online tutorial I've gone through. Have you read the New Maintainers Guide? After that you should be pretty much able to make packages. More info can be found in the debian-policy if needed. > First am I in the right group to ask questions? The best group would be debian-mentors > refering to things like '/usr/lib/ghc-5.02.2/'. Which is highly version > specific and I'd like to make it at least generic to ghc-5. How can I amend > the makefiles to take into account the version of ghc installed? You could try to parse the output of 'ghc --version' -- Peter Makholm | According to the hacker ethic, the meaning of life [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is not Friday, but it is not Sunday either http://hacking.dk | -- Peeka Himanen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
