Hello, I request the help of a mentor to aid me with some package building
issue.
Currently I'm developing a library and a command line tool with Autotools. I
have 3 directories: lib for the library code, include for the headers and
src for the command tool code.
Then I decided to build a Debian package. Using dh_make I choosed "l" to
make a library package following the steps of the official documentation.
Then I fill as correctly as I can all fields on debian/control file for the
2 packages that are to be generated: libfoo and libfoo-dev. I want libfoo to
contain the lib*so.* files compiled in /lib directory and libfoo-dev to
contain all *.h files (/include) and *.a files (/lib)
When I run debuild this generates empty packages (none of my files, only
DEBIAN files). Then I discovered that copying the proper autotools
directories into debian/libfoo1/usr and debian/libfoo-dev/usr I could
include the files I needed.
I try to figure how must I modify the main Makefile to copy automatically
all files to debian/libfoo directories
Makefile
install:
cp -r lib $(DESTDIR)/
cp -r include $(DESTDIR)/
cp -r src/foo $(DESTDIR)/bin
debian/rules --->
install: build
$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/libfoo1 install
$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/libfoo1-dev install
But this copies ALL files and directories and the 2 .deb generated packages
contains all .so, .a and .h files. Then I found 2 files: libfoo1.install and
libfoo-dev.install that are but patterns for files that are to be installed
(include) in each package. How can I use this files? It's any automatic way
to do this? Do I need modify the debian/rules or the main Makefile or both?
Thanks in advance.
