checkinstall + symbolic links

Question

I am trying to package this code with checkinstall, but run into this bug which prevents all the symbolic links for shared libraries to be created.

make install creates these links:

libdlt.so -> libdlt.so.2.17.0
libdlt.so.2 -> libdlt.so.2.17.0

The checkinstall package creates none of these, but ldconfig restores:

libdlt.so.2 -> libdlt.so.2.17.0

How do I make sure all the links are created? Or is there an alternative to checkinstall that I should use instead?

Answer 1

The problem for me was that I called make install before checkinstall. Of course that installed all the stuff, and lead to checkinstall not correctly identifying which files need to be installed.