Re: How to handle documentation and move it in the right place.

[Hans Deragon]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Hans Deragon wrote:
>
>
> >   I am trying to jugle with automake and rpmbuild to get an RPM built with the
> > documentation in the proper place.  I tried many things, but I never succeded to
> > get my documentation installed where I want.  When the documentation is
> > installed in the right place using "make install", rpmbuild can't get the
> > documentation or complains.
>
>
> The most common procedure for building RPMs appears to be to do
>
>   make DESTDIR=/somewhere install
>
> and then reference the installed files in /somewhere in the RPM spec
> file.  This way the normal Automake install target is used and you
> don't need to worry about anything but 'install' in your Makefile.am
> files.
>
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
> address@hidden
> http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

Greetings.

I do not understand how "make DESTDIR=/somewhere install" would help.  In a way, 
I am already doing it.

Here is a partial listing of %buildroot:

[... deleted lines ...]
.../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.html
.../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.pdf
.../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.ps
.../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.txt
.../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.ps
.../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.txt
.../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.html
.../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.pdf
[... deleted lines ...]

As you see, my document files are duplicated in the build directory.  When 
rpmbuild calls my tarball's source with "make install", the documents are copied 
under:

.../usr/share/apt-build/doc/

Now when rpmbuild reads the "%doc doc" statement, it copies from the tarball the 
documents to:

.../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/

This directory is the right place where they should be.  However, because they 
files under .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/ are not listed in %files, rpmbuild 
complains "error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:" and my rpm is not 
built.

How can I avoid .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/ to be created in the first place, 
when it is the normal spot for my documents when "make install" is called?

In other words, I want the documents be at different places when they are part 
of a tarball or an rpm, but this causes problem because from what I understand, 
rpmbuild needs them to be in the same place.


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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