Re: RFC: abiword.spec


Subject: Re: RFC: abiword.spec
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 08:02:33 CST


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think that this rpm spec is getting to be quite developed.
> Are there ways to make it simpler?
> This spec allows different builds to be customized just by changing 1
> to 0 or 0 to 1 in the variables at the beggining, and uses old style
> comppilation.
>
> I am unable to see a way to have this level of customization using
> configure, because rpm spec variables don't seem to handle redefinition.
>

Don't use configure. There are lots of problems with the latest version of
autoconf. For the time being our rpm's should be diving make I think.

Cheers

Martin

PS. rms Do you want to be the official rpm packager? I'd be happy to pass
on that torch :-)



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