Hi,

I tried to do the following:

make deb

But the Makefile does not have any rules for a "deb" section. I looked for some documentation on the subject but I could not find any.

Can someone please explain to me how can I make deb packages using the make script ?

Thanks,

Ido

Op Wed, 30 Aug 2006, schreef ik:

You need to check out the fpcbuild repository, not the fpc repository. FPCbuild contains the infrastructure to build deb files.

Daniël

Thanks.

I do have one problem when I try to compile it though: /bin/cp: cannot stat `fpcsrc/libgdb': No such file or directory

I'm using Linux ubuntu 64bit ...

I can't find any libgdb, so I guess it's a third party library ?

Ido

Op Thu, 31 Aug 2006, schreef ik:

Download it from: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/libgdb

See also http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Release_engineering

Daniël

Thanks again :)

I compiled gdb from sources, and copied the libgdb.a to the fpcsrc and symlink it as libgdb and it worked.

(Just to make it index for others to have that using search engines :))

Now another question is, can I cross compile to make an i386 deb packages as well ?

Ido

Op Thu, 31 Aug 2006, schreef ik:

Generally, yes, but there can be a few surprises:
* The compiler expects 32-bit libraries in /lib
* Bootstrap compilers <=2.0.2 need you to set GNUTARGET and LDEMULATION to instruct the binutils to generate 32-bit binaries.
* Allhtough building works, I'm not sure of .deb-building.

Daniël