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

[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. This results in a libtool
error message "libtool: install: debian/tmp/usr/lib' must be an
absolute directory name". Next, I tried
DEB_DESTDIR:=$(pwd)/debian/tmp, which resulted in trying to install
the compiled binary to /debian/tmp, of course with EPERM. Writing the
full path resulted in the already-known binary-less package.
$(pwd)/debian/tmp expands to /debian/tmp

> 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'

Greetings
Marc

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