dh_install -O--buildsystem=cmake dh_install: missing files: usr/lib/*/lib*.so

I am trying to publish my cmake project to ppa at launchpad. The project is a library named "base".

bzr builddeb -- -us -uc -sd fails with following error while trying to fake install dev version of the package.

...
...
Install the project...
/usr/bin/cmake -P cmake_install.cmake
-- Install configuration: "None"
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libbase.so.1.0
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libbase.so.1
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libbase.so
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/myxml.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/Socket.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/ClientSocket.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/mycurl.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/mystdlib.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/ServerSocket.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/JPEGImage.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/SocketException.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/FerryTimeStamp.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/myconverters.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/ferryfair/base/baseConfig.h
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libbase.pc
-- Installing: /home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/pkgconfig/libbase.pc
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/gowtham/Packages/build-area/base-1.1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
  dh_install -O--buildsystem=cmake
dh_install: base-dev missing files: usr/lib/*/lib*.so
dh_install: base-dev missing files: usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/*
dh_install: base1 missing files: usr/lib/*/lib*.so.*
dh_install: missing files, aborting
debian/rules:11: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 20
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1376:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -sd failed
bzr: ERROR: The build failed.

how to differ builddeb for dev version of the package at installing header files

debian/rules

#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

override_dh_auto_test:
override_dh_usrlocal:

%:
    dh $@ --buildsystem=cmake

Solution 1:

The paths in base-dev.install and base1.install are wrong.

dh_install: base-dev missing files: usr/lib/*/lib*.so
dh_install: base-dev missing files: usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/*
dh_install: base1 missing files: usr/lib/*/lib*.so.*

They will be correct as below and package can be built:

usr/lib/lib*.so
usr/lib/pkgconfig/*

usr/lib/lib*.so.*

But you will have lintian messages that /usr/lib/ is not safe for multi-arch system installations.

• Either you fix it at source level (as upstream developer), so cmake install those files to /usr/lib/<HOST-ARCH-FOLDER>/. Which is the correct way.

• Or you fix it at packaging level (as packager), by overriding installation paths in base-dev.install and base1.install

  #!/usr/bin/dh-exec
  
  usr/lib/lib*.so /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}
  usr/lib/pkgconfig/* /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/pkgconfig
  
  usr/lib/lib*.so.* /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}