[Cialug] making debs from complied source

[Paul Gray]

On 10/12/2014 03:47 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Dan Hockey wrote:
> 
>> I managed to complie an x86 program from source on a 512mb rpi and it worked. I found out the hard way
>> that just copying the files over to another rpi dosen't work, I'm assuming its because of all the dependances.
>> Is it possible to make a .deb on a rpi? or does it have to be cross compiled on a pc?
>> -dan
>>
> It's possible, .. but it might be simpler to just install dependencies via
> packages and then grab the installed components of the source install.
> 
> 	make install --dry-run
> 
> We do that with our Nagios appliances - I have one for development, and
> push the installed files to our git repository; pulling to the production
> units is painless. It also means we dont' have to include source files
> on shipped units.


Use Debian's 'checkinstall' utility to turn a source tree into an
installable Debain package.

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