Re: SPEC files for gnome 2.0 beta

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:

> On 25 Feb 2002, jacob berkman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 06:35, Chris Chabot wrote:
> >
> > > [..] but are 
> > > related to a libtool bug which causes libraries not to be created when 
> > > the DESTDIR is not the prefix dir, but hopefully those bugs are being 
> > > worked on by the gnome hackers.
> > i doubt anyone is looking into it other than using either the suggestion
> > my havoc or owen's ltmain patch.
>
> I've got a patch based on Havoc's ltmain patch; it is incorporated into
> Mandrake and nobody has complained about it (yet). It's quite a hack
> (adding -L$(DESTDIR)/...... in front of all other -L and -l flags),
> but works so far. If anybody wants to refine it, I can post it here
> anytime.

It might be worth looking at, to notify the maintainers of the affected 
packages? Also, could someone send me a 'fixed' ltmain, so i can 
incorperate them in the RPM's i'm building.

More and more packages seem to be affected by this, as i investigate 
this. So far we have:
nautilus, at-spi, libgnomedb, ORBit2, libgnomecanvas, libgnomeui, and 
basicly anything that provides libglade-2.0 libraries.

Since it is *required* to have the package installed to properly build 
it (chicken and egg?) there's no clean building of packages, and a huge 
opertunity to mess up packaging.

Forinstance, all the RPM's on ftp.gnome.org do not include the missing 
files described in previous emails, which results in broken gnome2 
desktops.

Also for automated building envirioments, this could cause serious 
anoyances ;-)

It would also mean that anyone who downloads a .tarbal, and builds a 
package from it, would have a broken instalation. Which to me, sounds as 
a realy bad thing.

Anyways, just my 0.2 euro cents

   -- Chris