Suggestion: Make a PPA for Debian about comcom64 HOT 19 CLOSED

Debian probably has bsd-compatible install,
and not a gnu install.
I added a possible fix.
Please update and try again.

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Hi @TerryTRSPanda, does Debian provide a PPA facility as I looked a while ago and didn't find anything? In the meantime our wiki has details on how to build proper packages for Debian, see https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/wiki/Building-packages-for-Debian

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Oh there's a checkinstall and with instructions for the commandcom file. Oh I think this deb build instruction will save so much headaches with playing with fire with FrankenDebian. Thank you for telling me about these instructions. Most Debian users aren't scared of compiling or the CLI, but it's good practice to limit make installs. I'll try it when I'm energized, I had a busy day.

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The commandcom32 instructions seem to be broken

`sudo make checkinstall
checkinstall --nodoc -y -D make install PREFIX=/usr

checkinstall 1.6.3, Copyright 2010 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
This software is released under the GNU GPL.

**** Debian package creation selected ***

This package will be built according to these values:

0 - Maintainer: [ root@Dobby ]
1 - Summary: [ 32bit command.com ]
2 - Name: [ comcom32 ]
3 - Version: [ 20230423 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 - Source location: [ comcom32 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Recommends: [ ]
12 - Suggests: [ ]
13 - Provides: [ comcom32 ]
14 - Conflicts: [ ]
15 - Replaces: [ ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:

Installing with make install PREFIX=/usr...

========================= Installation results ===========================
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/user/src/comcom32'
install -D -t /usr/share/comcom32 -m 0644 comcom32.exe
install: cannot create directory '/usr/share/comcom32': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [Makefile:51: install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/src/comcom32'

**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

make: *** [Makefile:71: checkinstall] Error 1
`

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install: cannot create directory '/usr/share/comcom32': No such file or directory

Suggests to me that /usr/share doesn't exist.

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Doesn't matter because:

       -D     create  all  leading  components of DEST except the last, or all
              components of --target-directory, then copy SOURCE to DEST

It creates with parent.
Obviously an attempt to create anything
wasn't done.

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Mmm, how weird!

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Not so much given that I already switched
fdpp and dosemu2 to the bsd-compatible
syntax of install. comcom32 was forgotten.

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The issues with building in Debian in the replies like the ones between my last reply and this reply is why a Debian PPA might be a good idea. I imagine if issues like this didn't happen with me, they would eventually happen with someone else and they probably happened to others before and just went unreported. I've known how to compile software for over 14 years and I never had an account on any revision control based website.

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Debian probably has bsd-compatible install, and not a gnu install. I added a possible fix. Please update and try again.

Oh you were telling me to rebuild, sorry just woke up. It worked and thanks. I've also heard a big problem with assuming GNU and not actual POSIX standards is stuff like this happens on BSD. GNU doesn't really adhere to the UNIX Philosophy.

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I got a build error on dosemu

`---------------------------------DONE Installing-------------------------------

• You can type 'dosemu' to run DOSEMU2.
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/src/dosemu2/build/src'
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/src/dosemu2/build'
  dh_install -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_installdocs -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_installchangelogs -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_installman -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_installinit -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_installsystemduser -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_perl -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_link -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_installxfonts -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_strip_nondeterminism -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_compress -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_fixperms -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_missing -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_strip -O--builddirectory=build
  dh_makeshlibs -O--builddirectory=build
  debian/rules override_dh_shlibdeps
  make[1]: Entering directory '/home/user/src/dosemu2'
  dh_shlibdeps -X.so
  dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends -pshlibs-
  dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/local/lib/fdpp/libfdpp.so.32.9 (used by debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_fdpp.so)
  Hint: check if the library actually comes from a package.
  dh_shlibdeps: error: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/dosemu2.substvars -dRecommends -pshlibs- debian/dosemu2/usr/bin/mkfatimage16 debian/dosemu2/usr/bin/dosdebug debian/dosemu2/usr/bin/dosemu.bin debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_fluidsynth.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_fdpp.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_json.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_sdl.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_libao.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_console.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_XKmaps.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_alsa.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_term.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_ladspa.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_gpm.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_X.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_lpt.so debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_slirp.so returned exit code 25
  dh_shlibdeps: error: Aborting due to earlier error
  make[1]: *** [debian/rules:20: override_dh_shlibdeps] Error 25
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/src/dosemu2'
  make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary] Error 2
  dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
  debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -i -b failed
  make: *** [Makefile:65: deb] Error 29
  `

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The issues with building in Debian in the replies like the ones between my last reply and this reply is why a Debian PPA might be a good idea.

I don't think anyone is questioning that. Ubuntu provides its Launchpad to create the PPA, Fedora has copr, so if Debian has something similar I'd be happy to add the receipe to make it happen. As yet I know of no Debian equivalent?

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The issues with building in Debian in the replies like the ones between my last reply and this reply is why a Debian PPA might be a good idea.

I don't think anyone is questioning that. Ubuntu provides its Launchpad to create the PPA, Fedora has copr, so if Debian has something similar I'd be happy to add the receipe to make it happen. As yet I know of no Debian equivalent?

Debian has PPAs, Debian just has the old way. Debian doesn't use apt-add-repo, you have to manually edit a sources.list config file and tell apt to add a key file so apt doesn't yell at you for adding an unsigned repo. It will work without a key though, apt will just tell the user it's a bad idea.

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dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/local/lib/fdpp/libfdpp.so.32.9 (used by debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_fdpp.so)
Hint: check if the library actually comes from a package.

This probably means dh_makeshlibs didn't
work when fdpp package was built.
@skitt maybe you can hint me what is it?

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Creating a Debian repo is not a great task, but populating it with the packages is. That's why I was looking for a solution like Ubuntu's Launchpad which tracks our git repositories, builds and uploads packages to the PPA several times per day.

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Maybe for future reference we can request Debian include Dosemu2 in future repos. But I'd settle for pre-built debs for now.

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dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/local/lib/fdpp/libfdpp.so.32.9 (used by debian/dosemu2/usr/lib/dosemu/libplugin_fdpp.so)
Hint: check if the library actually comes from a package.

This probably means dh_makeshlibs didn't work when fdpp package was built. @skitt maybe you can hint me what is it?

It did work, but the build picked up libfdpp from /usr/local/lib/fdpp rather than /usr/lib/fdpp. Deleting /usr/local/lib/fdpp and restarting the dosemu2 build should fix things.

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Ah, good catch!
I need to add that because fdpp uses
rpath, rebuilding dosemu2 package
might be needed after sudo make uninstall
of fdpp.

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So I tried removing fdpp and got another build error with dosemu and I rebuilt fdpp and got the old build error back.

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