Issue with static link libs during the build from source

[mkenchugonde]

Details about the machine

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"

I am trying to build the watchman from source and it is successful with below files.

+ find built -ls
137309098      0 drwxrwxr-x   4 ubuntu   ubuntu         28 Feb 16 09:29 built
268848602      0 drwxrwxr-x   2 ubuntu   ubuntu         68 Feb 16 10:49 built/lib
268848603   1268 -rw-r--r--   1 ubuntu   ubuntu    1296864 Feb 16 10:49 built/lib/libglog.so.0
268848604    512 -rwxr-xr-x   1 ubuntu   ubuntu     522360 Feb 16 10:49 built/lib/libunwind.so.8
268848618    756 -rwxr-xr-x   1 ubuntu   ubuntu     774096 Feb 16 10:49 built/lib/liblzma.so.5
403124736      0 drwxrwxr-x   2 ubuntu   ubuntu         41 Feb 16 10:49 built/bin
403124748  15844 -rwxr-xr-x   1 ubuntu   ubuntu   16224064 Feb 16 10:49 built/bin/watchmanctl
403124749 344032 -rwxr-xr-x   1 ubuntu   ubuntu   352286304 Feb 16 10:49 built/bin/watchman

However, whenever I try to build a deb package, it fails on the below step during the /lib directory deletion.

# This is an implicit assertion that the `lib` directory is empty.
# We statically link dependencies for packaging purposes.
rmdir "$BUILT/lib"

As per the comments, it is expected to not have any files inside the lib/ directory but the ./autogen.sh command is generating three lib files as mentioned above. I am not very good at building the packages and want to understand what will fix this. FYI, I tried sudo apt-get install libgoogle-glog-dev libunwind-dev liblzma-dev and it didn't help.

[mkenchugonde]

Instead of rmdir "$BUILT/lib", adding these below lines helped to fix the build and create a deb file successfully.

cp "$BUILT/lib/libglog.so.0" "$PREFIX/lib/"
cp "$BUILT/lib/liblzma.so.5" "$PREFIX/lib/"
cp "$BUILT/lib/libunwind.so.8" "$PREFIX/lib/"