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Building sources using autotools

Standard bootstrap: First try maintainer supplied autogen.sh:

sh autogen.sh

Second try:

autoreconf -i
./configure

Building Tarballs

make dist            # .tar.gz
make dist-bzip2      # .tar.bz2
make dist-lzma       # .tar.lzma
make dist-xz         # .tar.xz

# Extract with
tar zxf archive.tar.gz
tar jxf archive.tar.bz2
tar Jxf archive.tar.lzma
tar Jxf archive.tar.xz

Translating

With autotools gettext is the tool of choice...

After changing the sources: Update .pot and all .po files with

cd po && make update-po

Statistics: Show translation statistics

for pofile in *.po; do echo -n "$pofile "; msgfmt --statistic $pofile; done

autotools Installation

On Debian

apt-get install devscripts build-essential

Rebuilding from Debian sources

  • Rebuild Debian package (without apt-source)

    mkdir build && cd build
# Download xxxx.debian.tar.gz from package page
# Download xxxx.orig.tar.gz from package page (or upstream homepage)
# Download xxxx.dsc from package page

# Extract/patch package files
dpkg-source -x <name>.dsc

# Install missing deps reported by
dpkg-checkbuilddeps

# Build using one of the following
cd <package source dir>
debuild -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

  • Rebuild Debian package (with apt-source)

    mkdir build && cd build
apt-get source <name>
apt-get build-dep <name>

# And build

  • Patch a Debian package by hand

    # Extract .deb
dpkg-deb -R <package name> tmp

# Or if -R switch is not yet available
dpkg-deb -x <package name> tmp
dpkg-deb -e <package name> tmp/DEBIAN

# Rebuild with
dpkg-deb -b tmp <package name>

  • Debhelper: How to solve when backporting

    dh: Sorry, but 8 is the highest compatibility level supported by this debhelper.

    Change the required version in

    echo 8 >debian/compat

Misc

  • configure - Passing extra CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, ...

    ./configure "CFLAGS=-Wall -Wextra -I/opt/mylib/include" "LDFLAGS=-Lmy"

  • Find out module names for PKG_CHECK_MODULES:

    ls /usr/lib/pkg-config

  • Debian Package Hardening for C/C++

  • AppData freedesktop.org specification: Standard for end user SW description markup.

  • AppData - Validation:

    appdata-validate /usr/share/appdata/myapplication.appdata.xml