[XForms] rpms are not quite right

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes at inria.fr
Thu May 6 10:13:04 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <angus.leeming at btopenworld.com> writes:

Angus> To subscribers of the xforms list Jean-Marc, all,

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

Does libtool do that correctly when you do a 'make install'?

It may be that you have to do that yourself in a postinstall phase.
You may want to look at the rpm spec file of another existing library.

Angus> Two questions: a. Any idea what this last one is??? 

I guess it is a version where debug infomation has not been stripped.
This would only make sense when building without --disable-debug, I guess.

Angus> b. The names are incorrect. I'm building on a fedora core 1
Angus> machine so that 'rh8x' is incorrect. Is there a way to specify
Angus> this portably in the xforms.spec.in file or must it be hard
Angus> coded?

The rh8x comes from this thing at the top:
  Release: 1rh8x

Just replace it with '1'. We do not have any reason to generate
versions that are specific to some distributions, I think.

BTW, the line just below is wrong, since the downloads have changed place.

Source0: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/stable.pkg/1.0/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

JMarc



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