[q-lang-devel] Status of debian packaging

[Kari P. <ka...@sa...>]

I've begun building a Debian package of Q.  Some things I've changed
to make it conform more to Debian's standards:

I moved stuff away from share/q/etc and share/q/examples.  I moved
that stuff to /usr/share/doc/q-lang/ and
/usr/share/doc/q-lang/examples/.  I installed q-mode.el to where emacs
can find it.  Directory name "etc" implies system-wide configuration
files.  None of the stuff in there was that.

Single-letter package names aren't allowed.  I named the package as
q-lang.

I changed the info file to have the right section in it.  It was
originally like this:
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Q: (qdoc).                    The Q programming language and system.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

In the package:
@dircategory Development
@direntry
* Q: (qdoc).                    The Q programming language and system.
@end direntry

Most of the packaging is done, but I'm stuck with the libraries.
Things work fine until I run automake again.  The .so files seem to
lose their suffix, I don't know if that's significant.  The contents
of /usr/lib/q/ are:
clib     curl.a   gdbm.la  libtool    octave     odbc.a   tk.la
clib.a   curl.la  ggi      magick     octave.a   odbc.la
clib.la  gdbm     ggi.a    magick.a   octave.la  tk
curl     gdbm.a   ggi.la   magick.la  odbc       tk.a

The files without suffix have their executable bit set too.  This
doesn't seem to be related to the debian packaging I've done, running
automake and autoconf on the pristine source yields the same result.

A few diagnostics on this:
$ q
Error /usr/lib/q/clib, line 1: parse error at or near symbol `_'
$ file /usr/lib/q/clib
/usr/lib/q/clib: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
$ file /usr/local/lib/q/clib.so 
/usr/local/lib/q/clib.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

Looks like /usr/lib/q/clib.la has libraries from the build directory
listed in it, under my home directory.  As an example, the file
/usr/lib/q/curl.la:
# curl.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.4.2 (1.922.2.53 2001/09/11 03:18:52)
#
# Please DO NOT delete this file!
# It is necessary for linking the library.

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname='curl'

# Names of this library.
library_names='curl curl curl'

# The name of the static archive.
old_library='curl.a'

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -L/home/kari/dl/debian/q-lang-5.0/libq /usr/lib/libq.la /usr/l
ib/libcurl.la -lz -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lcrypt -lutil -lnsl -lm'

# Version information for curl.
current=0
age=0
revision=0

# Is this an already installed library?
installed=yes

# Files to dlopen/dlpreopen
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/usr/lib/q'


I tried automake versions 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 (you used 1.5 but that
wasn't packaged in Debian).  I need to be able to run automake again
to get the needed changes properly done.