Re: RPM an DEB packagers needed

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:33:40AM +0300, Osama ALASSIRY wrote:
> It is easy to build a binary-only package (using rpm -bb i already did
> and i have a spec file for that)
> 
> We really need to understand how chonfigure works to be able to build a
> complete set of RPMS (.src.rpm, .i386.rpm .i686.rpm .ia64.rpm ....etc.)


What you have built is simply a binary for 'akka'. You need to consider all
the keymaps, fonts, perl configuration (sampleconf.pl I think is what it is).

chonfigure simply finds what libraries/headers/etc are available in your
system, and points the src code to it so it can compile. As for right now, the
most immediate need is for a binary distribution (rpm, deb). One that puts
things in the right path, etc.

Akka as is (fresh out of the cvs) might need a little tweaking as far as paths
go.. sampleconf.pl is pretty much all you need to look at to figure out what
is what.

later
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