[fpc-pascal] debian control files for fpc

[David Emerson]

I solved this problem by downloading the sources from debian, which apparently 
have a different directory structure layout.

~D.


On Sun 18 Dec 2011, David Emerson wrote:
> > > Where can I find debian control files for fpc?
> > 
> > In the fpcbuild svn repository:
> > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/debian/
> > 
> > Vincent
> 
> Thanks much!!
> 
> I wish it worked :(
> 
> I copied all the debian control files from the 2.4.4 release:
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/tags/release_2_4_4/install/debian/
> 
> and, putting that debian directory into my own source directory...
> (which I got from sourceforge, 
> 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Source/2.4.4/fpc-2.4.4.source.tar.gz)
> 
> debuild -us -uc keeps complaining about a directory called "fpcsrc". I tried 
all 
> kinds of crazy things to remedy this but it's a no-go, I cannot get it to work 
> at all.
> 
> Ignoring the debian stuff, I can run "make clean all" and it works great!! but 
> this debian/rules thing is super-lame in its non-working behavior.
> 
> Any ideas? This must have worked for somebody, because the packages exist...
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> 
> following are extensive notes of all the crazy things I tried! Thank goodness 
> for long terminal histories! I hope you are not so bored as to want to read 
> them, but they're here.
> 
> 
> First I got this error:
> 
> Applying patch version.diff
> can't find file to patch at input line 5
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |This patch adds Debian build version to compiler full version.
> |
> |--- fpc-2.2.4~/fpcsrc/compiler/version.pas
> |+++ fpc-2.2.4/fpcsrc/compiler/version.pas
> --------------------------
> No file to patch.  Skipping patch.
> 2 out of 2 hunks ignored
> Patch version.diff does not apply (enforce with -f)
> make: *** [debian/stamp-patched] Error 1
> 
> 
> So I just deleted the whole patches directory. It is strange the the version 
is 
> wrong, too (2.2.4 instead of 2.4.4)
> 
> 
> Then I got this error:
> 
> 
> # Remove auto-generated version file.
> rm -rf fpcsrc/compiler/version.inc
> # Add version.inc:
> echo \'2.4.4-0\' > fpcsrc/compiler/version.inc
> /bin/sh: fpcsrc/compiler/version.inc: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Well, the file version.inc doesn't exist anyway, so I took all instances of it 
> out of debian/rules
> 
> 
> Then I got this error:
> 
> 
> --- Cleaning
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> /usr/bin/make -C fpcsrc compiler_distclean
> make: *** fpcsrc: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> 
> 
> So I changed the name to fpc, but that didn't fix it at all:
> 
> 
> /usr/bin/make -C fpc compiler_distclean
> make: *** fpc: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> 
> 
> So I tried taking out the -C parameters altogether, but that also didn't work:
> 
> 
> /usr/bin/make compiler_distclean
> make[1]: Entering directory `/Docs/fpc/Debian/fpc'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `compiler_distclean'.  Stop.
> 
> 
> I gave up on getting debian/rules to work and thought, maybe there is 
something 
> wrong with my fpc sources, like, some naming could be off?
> 
> 
> So I tried downloading the svn version from 
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_2_4_4
> 
> This also did not come with the debian controls included.
> And a comparison showed that the svn 2.4.4 release sources are identical to 
the 
> ones I already had. Part of me was kind of expecting that to be the case, but 
> of course part of me was also hoping that *something* would work. But since 
> they're identical, obviously it won't. find -name '*fpcsrc*' comes up empty.
> 
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