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SOLVED Re: CVS - no ./configure?
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thomas . cameron |
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SOLVED Re: CVS - no ./configure? |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:52:56 -0500 (CDT) |
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:50:40AM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
>> Thomas Cameron wanted us to know:
>>
>> >OK, disregard my last silly question - I was going to build the RPM but
>> >rpmbuild barfed because there is no configure script. IIRC there used
>> to
>> >be. Am I missing something?
>> >
>> >Please help this lowly non-programming sysadmin!
>>
>> In the spec file, change the build macro:
>>
>> %build
>> ./autogen.sh
>> %configure
>> %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
>
> Or, alternatively, build your RPM from a .tar.gz package. In order to do
> this, first
> build the .tar.gz from CVS. Generally, this is done by running
>
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make distcheck
>
> . Now, handle the .tar.gz as you would handle any source tarball. No
> need
> to have a specialized spec file: the tar.gz _does_ ship with a configure.
>
> Bye,
>
> Joost
After digging around late last night I read the autogen.sh file and
figured that it was what I was looking for. I ran it and then used the
resulting .tar.gz file as the source for my RPM.
Many thanks to all who answered both on- and off-list.
Thomas Cameron