The GNU Modula-2 front end to GCC

Creating a deb package for GNU Modula-2

This section documents an easy method of producing Debian packages for GNU Modula-2. There are probably other ways to build Debian packages but this method works well enough to produce the binary and source packages described in earlier sections.

• firstly you need to create a pbuilder environment. I used the excellent http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize tutorial.
• before building GNU Modula-2 you should update your pbuilder environment by:

  $ sudo pbuilder create
  

• now you can obtain the GNU Modula-2 source code.

  $ apt-get source gm2
  

• before creating the package it is advisable to revise the version number. This is should be done semi automatically via the following commands:

  $ cd gm2-1.9.4
  $ myrevdeb
  

  the script myrevdeb is available from http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/scripts/myrevdeb.

• if you just want to rebuild the rebuild the package with no alterations you should skip this bullet point. However if you wish to introduce a later gcc/gm2 source tree into the package you need to download the desired version from http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/c and extact and move it into gm2-1.9.4. Now you should remove the old source tree inside gm2-1.9.4 and then you will have to edit gm2-1.9.4/Makefile.in and gm2-1.9.4/debian/rules and change the references to the previous source tree to your source new tree. Once this is completed you must rebuild the Makefile by:

  $ cd gm2-1.9.4
  $ ./configure
  

• finally the package can be built using these commands:

  $ cd gm2-1.9.4
  $ mypdebbuild
  

  which are available as a trivial script http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/scripts/mypdebbuild. Once this completes you should have a binary package and a corresponding documentation package available in the directory /usr/local/src/results.