[LAU] Building ffmpeg (was: Building avplay)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:40:47 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:21:38 -0400 wrote:
>make install

Make love, not install

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/checkinstall

Ubuntu Wikis often are a PITA, but I've got no time to edit them at the
moment.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall

This Wiki already starts with "aptitude", that shouldn't be used by
Ubuntu Wikis/help pages.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/checkinstall.8.html

./configure
make
sudo checkisntall

It's self-explaining. Even running configure and make might not be
required, but I would run it anyway, even while checkinstall should
work without sudo and an additional sudo dpkg.

You not necessarily need to add dependencies. If I don't build DEBs the
Debian/Ubuntu way with control and rules files and a changelog, but
instead use checkinstall, I don't use all options, e.g. for Claws:

0 -  Maintainer: [ Weremouse <silver.bullet at zoho.com> ]
1 -  Summary: [ A GTK+ based e-mail client - git checkout ]
2 -  Name:    [ claws-mail-git ]
3 -  Version: [ 3.14.0-2-ge48b73 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL3 ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 -  Source location: [ claws ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ]
12 - Conflicts: [  ]
13 - Replaces: [  ]

I don't add anything to Requires, Conflicts and Replaces.

Regards,
Ralf