SOLVED Re: CVS - no ./configure?

[thomas . cameron]

> 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