* Shawn Sörbom <[email protected]>, 2015-05-18, 13:54:
I am playing with the Snes9x source code, and I can't get it to compile
via debhelper. Snes9x has its config files in a subfolder of the
sources called "unix".
What is the proper way of overriding dh_auto_install and dh_auto_build
to point debhelper to the correct location?
I have tried placing these overrides in my debian/rules file, but they
don't seem to work:
override_dh_auto_configure:
DESTDIR=$(shell pwd)/debian/snes9x
cd $(shell pwd)/unix
autoreconf -i
configure --prefix=$(DESTDIR)
override_dh_auto_build:
cd $(shell pwd)/unix
make
Vincent's answer is correct, but let me explain why your d/rules didn't
work:
“When it is time to execute recipes to update a target, they are
executed by invoking a new sub-shell for each line of the recipe, […]
Please note: this implies that setting shell variables and invoking
shell commands such as 'cd' that set a context local to each process
will not affect the following lines in the recipe. If you want to use
'cd' to affect the next statement, put both statements in a single
recipe line. Then 'make' will invoke one shell to run the entire line,
and the shell will execute the statements in sequence.” [0]
Your makefile had also two minor buglets:
It's better to use $(CURDIR) instead of $(shell pwd); or use relative
paths where possible.
“Recursive 'make' commands should always use the variable 'MAKE', not
the explicit command name 'make'” [1]
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Execution.html
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/MAKE-Variable.html
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