Some more Help needed for a beginner

Hi Isak,
Since I found so many ppl on the net who have fallen in love with 
autopackage, I guess it is very easy to do a package.
So definitely I am doing something which is more than a mistake, maybe a 
blunder!

I will note down the points/steps I am doing...

1. I created a directory "HelloWorld" in my home (where bashrc is). /I 
do not have a /usr/bin permission/.
2. Inside this directory I have 2 sub-dirs. viz. src\ and autopackage\
3. Inside src is the 'helloWorld.c' file.
4. From 'HelloWorld' dir I do a "/makepackage -mkspec 
 >autopackage/default.apspec"
/5. I have a Makefile in 'HelloWorld" with the lines you had provided 
earlier.
6. I have modified the apspec file as per ur suggestion.... but since I 
do not have root permission I (later) modified
        PREFIX=/usr
        to
        PREFIX=/home/anjan/helloWorld
*/Remaining portion remains absolutely unchanged./*

7. Now in 'HelloWorld' when I do a makepackage, it simply executes (with 
warning "can't remove /tmp/atpkgXYZ").
Then nothing happens.

Where do I look for the thing *hello.package*. What step am I missing. 
Is there some more intermediatory steps I am missing?

Thanks and regards,
Anjan

Isak Savo wrote:
> 2008/1/23, Anjan Santra <[email protected]>:
>   
>>  Hi Isak,
>>  Thanks for your reply. I made the changes as suggested by you.
>>
>>  I also did "export
>> build_root=/home/anjan/helloWorld_INSTALL" (its same for
>> DESTDIR)
>>     
>
> Don't do that! :-)
>
>   
>>  I want the package to go there.
>>  If I run make and make-install, it works fine, but if I run "makepackage"
>> the folder pointed to by build_root is simply removed.
>>     
>
> build_root is an autopackage variable, makepackage will set it and
> your [prepare] section is supposed to put all the files to include in
> the package into that folder.
>
> You should NOT set $build_root to anything. Just make sure that
> [prepare] puts files into the $build_root directory (which it does, if
> you used my Makefile + call 'make install DESTDIR=$build_root' from
> the .apspec).
>
> -Isak
>
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