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[edit] Debian Packaging

This page aims to explain how to create debian packages for FPC.

[edit] Getting sources

FPC sources are managed using SVN. The most covignent was to get sources in order to build a release is using the svn export command :

svn export http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/tags/release_x_y_z fpcbuild-x.y.z

[edit] Building packages

For general knowledge about building FPC release packages, plese refer to Release engineering page.

The top make file of the fpcbuild-x.y.z supports the deb target which is intended to build Debian packages from sources.

make deb

However, user may want to use his own packeging rules file

make deb DEBDIR=<some path to debian dir>

Or use a particular libgdb version

make deb GDBLIBDIR=<path/${OS_TARGET}/${CPU_TARGET}>

[edit] How it works