Using checkinstall in place of sudo cmake?

Question

I've been trying to compile digikam and as part of that process needed to compile jasper. Jasper developers use cmake, I wanted to make a .deb package -- in fact was trying to learn how to make a package to share -- and so tried to do this (which errors as below):

sudo checkinstall -D "sudo cmake --build '/home/username/Downloads/jasper/buildlocal' --target install"

Checkinstall run with sudo returns a "not found" error (end of 4th line) despite the command being passed to it working successfully:

Installing with sudo cmake --build '/home/username/Downloads/jasper/buildlocal' --target install...

========================= Installation results ===========================
/var/tmp/tmp.miGWYgiNzT/installscript.sh: 4: sudo cmake --build '/home/username/Downloads/jasper/buildlocal' --target install: not found

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

To repeat, the command

sudo cmake --build '/home/username/Downloads/jasper/buildlocal' --target install

was successful, but neither sudo checkinstall, nor sudo cmake with plain checkinstall, nor using sudo for both, worked.

How can I pass the write invocation to checkinstall to make a package here. More details of all commands run at my blog, but I feel this is enough to answer the question.

Answer 1

IIRC you're supposed to run checkinstall with the actual install command as arguments, not as a single quoted argument. So:

sudo checkinstall -D cmake --build '/home/username/Downloads/jasper/buildlocal' --target install

This is not very clear from the manpage, but the README has some examples:

• Run checkinstall:

  checkinstall
  

  NOTE: If you give no arguments to checkinstall it will run a "make install". If you give arguments, the first non-option argument will be used as the install command. This is useful when the install command is not "make install" but something else like "make install_packages" or "setup" or whatever, i.e.

  checkinstall make install_packages
  checkinstall make modules_install
  checkinstall install.sh
  checkinstall setup
  checkinstall rpm -i my-package-1.0.i386-1.rpm