[XForms] rpms are not quite right

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Marc, all,

Executive summary: how do we get rpm to install the symbolic links 
libforms.so and libforms.so.1 that are to point at libforms.so.1.0.0? 
Is this a libtool issue?

Detailed description of what I've done.

I've built the xforms rpms (as non-root) by

1. creating a file .rpmmacros:
$ cat ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home/angus/rpm

2. generating the necessary subdirectories of ~/rpm
$ mkdir ~/rpm
$ cd ~/rpm
$ mkdir -p RPMS/i386 RPMS/noarch SRPMS SOURCES BUILD SPECS

Thereafter I can build the rpms as non-root with
$ cd ~/xforms/cvs/build
$ make rpmdist

The rpms are generated as expected:
$ cd ~/rpm/RPMS/i386/
$ ls
xforms-1.0.90-1rh8x.i386.rpm            
xforms-devel-1.0.90-1rh8x.i386.rpm
xforms-debuginfo-1.0.90-1rh8x.i386.rpm

Two questions:
a. Any idea what this last one is???
b. The names are incorrect. I'm building on a fedora core 1 machine so 
that 'rh8x' is incorrect. Is there a way to specify this portably in 
the xforms.spec.in file or must it be hard coded?

Thereafter, as root, I install in /usr/local:
# rpm -Uvh --prefix /usr/local xforms-1.0.90-1rh8x.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ############################# [100%]
   1:xforms                 ############################# [100%]
# rpm -Uvh --prefix /usr/local xforms-devel-1.0.90-1rh8x.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ############################# [100%]
   1:xforms-devel           ########################### [100%]

Everything appears to be OK:

# ls -l /usr/local/bin/f*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  81916 May  6 14:33 /usr/local/bin/fd2ps
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 221920 May  6 14:33 /usr/local/bin/fdesign
# ls -l /usr/local/include
total 160
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  24582 May  6 14:33 flimage.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 123575 May  6 14:33 forms.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1129 May  6 14:33 glcanvas.h
# ls -l /usr/local/lib
total 1540
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 254026 May  6 14:33 libflimage.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    729 May  6 14:33 libflimage.la
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 190856 May  6 14:33 libflimage.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 637862 May  6 14:33 libforms.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   4692 May  6 14:33 libformsGL.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    729 May  6 14:33 libformsGL.la
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   7204 May  6 14:33 libformsGL.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    715 May  6 14:33 libforms.la
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 435300 May  6 14:33 libforms.so.1.0.0

However, note that there are no libforms.so, libforms.so.1, etc 
symbolic links. Just the libforms.so.1.0.0

There absence means that fdesign and fd2ps are not executable:
# ldd /usr/local/bin/fdesign
        libforms.so.1 => not found
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00cc2000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00e1f000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x00c43000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00437000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x005c1000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00799000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00a48000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0082a000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00325000)

How to rectify the situation?
Angus