Bug#380614: [Build-common-hackers] Bug#380614: cdbs: creates empty packages on -dbg package creation

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:43:39PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 12:49 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:17:16PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > Just for clarity: "overriding DEB_DESTDIR" would be to say
> > > > "DEB_DESTDIR:=debian/tmp" in debian/rules?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > First, I tried DEB_DESTDIR:=debian/tmp.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't think all the way.  You need to set
> 
> DEB_DESTDIR = $(CURDIR)/debian/ksynaptics
Ah! Now everything makes sense.

> > $(pwd)/debian/tmp expands to /debian/tmp
> 
> $(pwd) does not have a special meaning in make.

I keep confusing pwd and CURDIR, hating make with a passion.

> > > You can probably just write * in there.
> >
> > That one results in
> >
> > |dh_install -pksynaptics
> > |cp: cannot copy a directory, `./debian', into itself,
> > | `debian/ksynaptics/debian/tmp/debian'
> 
> Probably debian/tmp/* then, or you need to give a --sourcedir option to 
> dh_install.

Probably. I'll try this next time.

I'd like to suggest keeping this bug open until this bug report's
findings have been incorporated into cdbs docs.

Greetings
Marc

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