Re: [gnome-db] libgda-0.91.0 specfile error?

[David T Hollis <dhollis davehollis com>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 08:39 -0400, Adam Williams wrote:
>  
>
> > > > > > Sry, "libgda-0.91.0" SRPM from gnome-db ftp specfile.
> > > > > > Meant the specfile on the SRPM, actually this issue is not present on
> > > > > > cvs's specfile.in 
> > > > > >            
> > > > > well, then, no need to patch CVS. Maybe we should rebuild the SRPM with
> > > > > the spec file in CVS. Adam, how does that sound?
> > > > >          
> > > > Fine with me.  So yank just that file from CVS and build with the 0.91
> > > > tarball?
> > > > I think I missed the first message in this thread, not exactly clear
> > > > what the error is.
> > > >        
> > > I don't understand the point of the patch either.  It would just revert 
> > > the spec file back to it's 'default' settings.  It looks like the SRPM 
> > > he was using had been edited to include support for MDB and SQLITE.  At 
> > >      
> > Yes, it has.  And hence binary RPMs for those providers are available. 
> > I've tried to make the provider selection as complete as possible - RPMs
> > for the "subordinate" MDB and SQLITE libraries and other files are also
> > available both on the gnome-db ftp site, my ftp site, and other places.
> >
> > I asssumed that ANYONE building from the SPEC in CVS or the SPEC in the
> > source RPM would adjust the list of providers to build, reflecting their
> > own need or system configuration.
> >
> > But if the SPEC file should be placed back to the default after building
> > the binary RPMS, that isn't a problem.
> >
> >    
> isn't it possible to have the spec file just build things if the
> provider needed libraries are available only? That is, as we do in
> configure.in, can the spec file contain instructions for only building
> the providers that have their libraries available?
>
> cheers
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RPM doesn't really give you that type of conditional, though it could be 
rigged, it wouldn't be pretty.  The current spec file allows you to 
enable to 'non-default' backends on the command line with '--with mdb', 
or '--with ldap'.  For those that want to provide a binary package, they 
can rebuild using something like:

rpmbuild -ba --with mdb --with sqllite --with tds --with sybase --with 
db2 --ldap libgda.spec