Creating a .deb package for PHP 7.1

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I want to create a .deb package of PHP 7.1 for Debian with the PHP modules I want.

Here the steps I have followed.

1. Downloading PHP sources

   wget http://fr2.php.net/get/php-7.1.7.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
   tar xvf mirror
   mv mirror php_7.1.7.orig.tar.bz2
   cd php-7.1.7/
   

Here I can compile PHP 7.1, no problem. If I want to build the package, I follow those steps:

2. Preparing the packaging:

   export DEBFULLNAME="Shanx Shanxou"
   dh_make -e shanx@example.com
   apt-get install debhelper cdbs lintian build-essential fakeroot devscripts pbuilder dh-make debootstrap
   
   vim debian/control
   

In that file I modify the Build-Depends: line with:

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), autotools-dev, mawk, file, libxml2-dev:amd64, libxml2:amd64, bison, perl-modules, libfakeroot:amd64, perl, mime-support, libmagic1:amd64    , autoconf, build-essential, git-core, libbz2-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libicu-dev, libjpeg-dev, libmcrypt-dev, libpng-dev, libpspell-dev, libreadline    -dev, libssl-dev, libxml2-dev, pkg-config, libc-client-dev, libkrb5-dev, libpq-dev, libxslt-dev

3. The packaging:

   debuild -S -sa --lintian-opts -i
   cd ..
   pbuilder create
   pbuilder update --extrapackages "libc-client-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libreadline-dev libpspell-dev libpng-dev libmcrypt-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libbz2-dev git-core mime-support libfakeroot bison libkrb5-dev libxml2-dev  debhelper"
   pbuilder build *.dsc
   

4. The result:

   mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/extensions': Permission denied
   mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303': No such file or directory
   Makefile:160: recipe for target 'install-modules' failed
   make[1]: *** [install-modules] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/buildd/php-7.1.7'
   dh_auto_install: make -j1 install DESTDIR=/tmp/buildd/php-7.1.7/debian/php AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no returned exit code 2
   debian/rules:22: recipe for target 'binary' failed
   make: *** [binary] Error 2
   dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
   E: Failed autobuilding of package
   I: unmounting dev/pts filesystem
   I: unmounting run/shm filesystem
   I: unmounting proc filesystem
   I: cleaning the build env
   I: removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//14827 and its subdirectories
   

But the directory and the file have been created by the packaging process:

# ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/extensions
no-debug-non-zts-20160303

5. The questions

Is my packaging process valid?

If so, what could be the causes of the error?

EDIT: @Stephen Kitt answer did the trick. Just to not, you have to use actual tabulations (not space) and not forget to reexecute debuild -S -sa --lintian-opts -i after the modification.

EDITbis : New question here Installing a created .deb package

manpreet 2 years ago

override_dh_auto_install:
        dh_auto_install -- INSTALL_ROOT=$(CURDIR)/debian/php