[dev] wmii 3.9b1 deb contains no binary

I downloaded the wmii 3.9b1 tarball here:

   http://dl.suckless.org/wmii/wmii+ixp-3.9b1.tbz

and proceeded to build a debian package, per the instructions in the README
file. I made three changes: 1) I changed PREFIX to "/usr", 2) I changed ETC
to "/etc", and I did not build the package via the "deb" make target, as the
build would fail due to gpg errors. Instead I built it via

   dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

The build finished and no errors were visible. However, the resulting
deb contained only the following files:

   /usr/share/doc/wmii-hg/changelog.gz
   /usr/share/doc/wmii-hg/copyright
   /usr/share/doc/wmii-hg/README

So, why wasn't a binary produced? Thinking that I messed up somewhere, I
started over in a clean directory and did NOT edit any files before building
the package, but once again the deb contained only the aforementioned three
files.

The means by which I am viewing these files is copying the deb to a new
directory and running "dpkg -x wmii-hg_hg2550_amd64.deb .". This is the
only deb produced.

Could someone explain why the deb doesn't have a wmii binary in it?

Thanks,
Daniel
Received on Tue Mar 02 2010 - 12:22:03 UTC