LinuxQuestions.org - Error building a DEB library package

I've asked this on the Debian Forums site also.

I have successfully (at several times) build a single binary package with dh_make and debuild. I'm now trying to build a library package but have been stuck with different errors.

I'm presently trying to build the library package for libexcfeutil-4.10.0. I've debianized the source with dh_make -l and edited the respective files in the debian directory. This is my control file:

Code:

Source: libxfce4util

Priority: optional

Maintainer: Towheed Mohammed <e-mail edited>

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autotools-dev

Standards-Version: 3.9.1

Section: xfce

Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>

#Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/libxfce4util.git

#Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/libxfce4util.git;a=summary



Package: libxfce4util-dev

Section: libdevel

Architecture: any

Depends: libxfce4util6 (= ${binary:Version})

Description: This package contains the header files for libxfce4util6

 A long summanry.



Package: libxfce4util6

Section: libs

Architecture: any

Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}

Description: This package contains the lib files

 Another long summary.

And my rules file:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

# -*- makefile -*-

# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.

# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.

# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a

# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.

# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.



# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.

#export DH_VERBOSE=1

%:

    dh_testdir

    dh_auto_clean

    dh_clean

    dh_testdir

    dh_auto_configure -- --disable-debug

    dh_auto_build

    dh_auto_test

    dh_testdir

    dh_testroot

    dh_installchangelogs

    dh_installdocs

    dh_installdirs

    dh_auto_install

    dh_install

    dh_compress

    dh_fixperms

    dh_strip

    dh_makeshlibs

    dh_shlibdeps

    dh_installdeb

    dh_gencontrol

    dh_md5sums

    dh_builddeb

After running:

Code:

debuild -us -uc

the build fails with the following error:

Code:

dh_install

dh_install: libxfce4util-dev missing files (usr/lib/lib*.a), aborting

make: *** [clean] Error 255

dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2

debuild: fatal error at line 1325:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

After much searching and reading:
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#ftn.id249924
http://myitcorner.com/blog/?p=217
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/LibraryPackaging
together with the usual Debian docs, I've found this post:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...-libraries-deb

After reading that post, I changed the dh_auto_configure line in the rules file to:

Code:

dh_auto_configure -- --disable-debug --enable-static

But now after debuild I get this error:

Code:

dh_install

dh_install: libxfce4util-dev missing files (usr/share/pkgconfig/*), aborting

make: *** [clean] Error 2

dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2

debuild: fatal error at line 1325:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

So I set my PKG_CONFIG_PATH env var to:

Code:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

but I get the same error.

This is my debian/libxfce4util-dev.install file:

Code:

usr/include/*

usr/lib/lib*.a

usr/lib/lib*.so

usr/lib/pkgconfig/*

usr/lib/*.la

usr/share/pkgconfig/*

I've been at this for the last week and now I'm at my wits end.

I'd really appreciate any help and/or guidance in solving this.

Thanks.