How to configure packaging file for application if source folder doesn't contain ./configure file

[Evgeniy Litvinenko]

Hello,

I've been trying to create packages via "bosh-gen package" of sendmail and postfix, but bosh create packaging file with the following content:

tar xfv postfix/postfix_2.9.6.orig.tar.gz
cd postfix-2.9.6
./configure --prefix=${BOSH_INSTALL_TARGET}
make 
make install

This default configuration doesn't work because ./configure doesnt exist in the source folder.

Then if I comment this string #./configure --prefix=${BOSH_INSTALL_TARGET} it doesn't resolve the issue, because when make command execting it start writing files to some folder like /usr/... which are wrong at all.

My question is how to workaround it without changing source code configuration of thr application.
p.s
--prefix variable doesnt exist in any files where it might be like Makefile or Makefile.in

[Dr Nic Williams]

The generated packaging script is just a static example of what might work.; or what works for many C-based projects.

Do whatever packaging commands are necessary for the package you are building. Just make sure the resulting bits are in the $BOSH_INSTALL_PATH

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[Dave Parfitt]

You could also drill down into any of these existing packages for more examples:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/tree/master/packages

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