making packages

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:50:59 +0200, Michel Clasquin <clasqm@> wrote:
>> david wrote:
>> >
>> > I would like to make .deb packages out of source code but have
>> > absolutely no idea where to start.

>> The quick and dirty way is to use checkinstall. You go through the usual
>> ./configure and make routine, then instead of "make install" you use
>> "checkinstall" and it makes a nice little deb file for you
>
> Does this create a .deb with all the needed libraries, statically linked?

That is typically an option to ./configure, e.g. for gimp (./configure
--help):

     --enable-static[=PKGS]	build static libraries [default=no]

(An exercise to the reader: how do you get shared libraries?)

        Affi