Using debuild to build shared libraries .deb

Question

I'm trying to package a shared library using debuild to build the .deb file. In runnign dh_make the library option was selected. Have been following this guide Having managed to build the library, i'm getting the foillowing error:

  dh_install
dh_install: mylibrary-dev missing files (usr/lib/lib*.a), aborting
make: *** [binary] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1337:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

I looked inside the directory listed in the error, e.g. ~/mylibrary-1.0/debian/mylibrary-dev/usr/lib/ and it empty. The shared libraries are actually in: ~/mylibrary-1.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/ However there are no *.a libs in there. The mylibrary-dev.install file list the following:

usr/include/*
usr/lib/lib*.a
usr/lib/lib*.so
usr/lib/pkgconfig/*
usr/lib/*.la
usr/share/pkgconfig/*

For some reason an extra package is listed in the control file.

Source: mylibrary
Priority: extra
Maintainer: satpal <satpal@unknown>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autotools-dev
Standards-Version: 3.8.4
Section: libs
Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>

Package: mylibrary-dev
Section: libdevel
Architecture: any
Depends: mylibrary1 (= ${binary:Version})
Description: <insert up to 60 chars description>
 <insert long description, indented with spaces>

Package: mylibrary1
Section: libs
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: <insert up to 60 chars description>
 <insert long description, indented with spaces>

Following the helloworld example used in the guide, it only comes up with Source and a single package

Sorry for long post, just wanted ensure there was enough info.

Thanks

EDIT (@Gilles) my rules file is:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

%:
    dh $@

I don't know howto attached an archive, or if i have enough rep to attached one.

Answer 1

I re-read Gilles comment on my orignal post and managed to work out why I had no .a files. It was because I had actually stopped the creation of the static library in the configure.ac with the flag:

AM_DISABLE_STATIC

A big D'oh on my part.

Thanks for your help.