[SOLVED] how to create a package of make?

pan64 · 10-14-2016, 01:24 AM

Hi,
on ubuntu trusty (14.04) the version of make is 3.81, but I need a newer version, like 4.1 or 4.2.1. It looks like this package is not available officially, so probably I need to create it. How can I construct an installable "almost official" make package?

Actually I have downloaded the sources, ./configure make and make install work, but I need a deb package. What is the next step?

hazel · 10-14-2016, 01:47 AM

Look in the Debian wiki.

pan64 · 10-14-2016, 02:37 AM

thanks, although it was not that simple.
I had to create 2 docker images, one for ubuntu 16.04 to download sources (apt-get source make) and one for ubuntu 14.04 to rebuild/backport package. But finally it was successfully created.