No top level make-file

[Shayon Mukherjee]

On 10/03/2011 03:44 AM, Florian Brandes wrote:

Hi florian,

Thanks for the reply. I will try the build-stamp, I might need to patch 
too i think (there is another reply to this post). But thanks, i am sure 
this will be helpful.

Shayon

> Hello Shayon,
>
> I'm new to packaging myself, but it looks to me that you only have to
> add the installer script (or the two lines in it itself) into the
> debian/rules file under "build-stamp:" :
>
> debian/rules:
> (...)
> configure: configure-stamp
> configure-stamp:
> 	dh_testdir
> 	# Add here commands to configure the package.
> 	
> 	touch configure-stamp
>
> build: build-stamp
>
> build-stamp: configure-stamp
> 	dh_testdir
>
> 	# Add here commands to compile the package.
> 	linux-install.sh
> 	
> 	touch build-stamp
>
> I don't think you would need the configure(-stamp) either, I just
> included it to be complete.
>
> Of course you will need to put a JRE as a dependency in debian/control,
> too. (Although, I don't think you need it as a build dependency)
>
> I hope I could be of help,
>
> Florian
>
> Am Sonntag, den 02.10.2011, 15:50 -0500 schrieb Shayon Mukherjee:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to MOTU and packaging and currently working on the
>> needs-packaging bug. So, i found a bug and got the source code of it.
>> But there is no make-file in it, that being said I think some tunning
>> will be needing in the rules file right ?
>>
>> if so is there a sample/template i can look into ?
>>
>> This source has a linux-install.sh file, that being said it installs
>> using the shell script. Or should i just try to convert the shell scrip
>> to .deb first. I havent done that before but read somewhere. And not
>> sure how it will help either?
>>
>> For reference the bug is - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/830052
>>
>> Thanks much
>>
>> Shayon
>>
>