Hi,

I have a package which source tarball containst two examples
directories:

src/examples
src/c++/examples

Since both directories contain a Makefile, I would like to install
src/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples and src/c++/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples/c++.

This seems to be beyond dh_installexamples' capabilities.

What would you suggest? I could override dh_auto_installexamples (does
that one exist?), using dh_installexamples to install
src/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples and then manually copy src/c++/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples/c++

Is there a less ugly way?

Greetings
Marc

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On Sun, 2021-11-21 at 21:22 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

Is there a less ugly way?

Send upstream a patch to create a directory structure like this:

src/
examples/
c/
c++/

If you're only after workarounds, there are two options:

Run dh_installexamples twice. First install the C++ examples, then
mkdir c++, then mv * c++, then install the C examples.

Read the dh_installexamples code and adapt the `cd && find | sort |
xargs cp` command that dh_installexamples is just a wrapper for.

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bye,
pabs

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 09:05:02AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

On Sun, 2021-11-21 at 21:22 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

Is there a less ugly way?

Send upstream a patch to create a directory structure like this:

src/
examples/
c/
c++/

I would find that inappropriate. In the structure of upstream's code,
the examples split does totally make sense, they have also split their C
and c++ bindings into two subdirectories.

I am reluctant to ask upstream to change their structure because of a shortcoming in our tools. I will file a wishlist bug against debhelper
to support a target directory for lines in foo.examples.

If you're only after workarounds, there are two options:

Run dh_installexamples twice. First install the C++ examples, then
mkdir c++, then mv * c++, then install the C examples.

That won't work with the foo.examples file approach. But I might not be
awake yet.

Read the dh_installexamples code and adapt the `cd && find | sort |
xargs cp` command that dh_installexamples is just a wrapper for.

That's the "install manually" approach. I will probably do that in my
package.

Thanks for helping!

Greetings
Marc


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Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes:

I have a package which source tarball containst two examples
directories:

src/examples
src/c++/examples

Since both directories contain a Makefile, I would like to install src/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples and src/c++/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples/c++.

This seems to be beyond dh_installexamples' capabilities.

What would you suggest? I could override dh_auto_installexamples (does
that one exist?), using dh_installexamples to install
src/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples and then manually copy src/c++/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples/c++

Is there a less ugly way?

Hi,

I'd use plain dh_install, maybe even for the part dh_installexamples
gets right (for symmetry), and skip dh_installexamples.
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Regards,
Feri

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