Building our own deb packages we've run into the issue of having to patch manually some scripts so they get the proper prefix.
In particular,
- We're building mono
- We're using official tarballs.
- The scripts that end up with wrong prefix are: mcs, xbuild, nunit-console4, etc
An example of a wrong script:
#!/bin/sh
exec /root/7digital-mono/mono/bin/mono \
--debug $MONO_OPTIONS \
/root/7digital-mono/mono/lib/mono/2.0/nunit-console.exe "$@"
What should be the correct end result:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/mono \
--debug $MONO_OPTIONS \
/usr/lib/mono/2.0/nunit-console.exe "$@"
The workaround we're using in our build-package script before calling dpkg-buildpackage:
sed -i s,`pwd`/mono,/usr,g $TARGET_DIR/bin/mcs
sed -i s,`pwd`/mono,/usr,g $TARGET_DIR/bin/xbuild
sed -i s,`pwd`/mono,/usr,g $TARGET_DIR/bin/nunit-console
sed -i s,`pwd`/mono,/usr,g $TARGET_DIR/bin/nunit-console2
sed -i s,`pwd`/mono,/usr,g $TARGET_DIR/bin/nunit-console4
Now, what is the CORRECT way to fix this? Full debian package creation scripts here.
Disclaimer: I know there are preview packages of Mono 3 here! But those don't work for Squeeze.