RE: gdk-pixbuf .spec file or RPM?

[Craig Orsinger <orsingerc epg-gw1 lewis army mil>]

On 27-Feb-00 Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> Whoops, must have missed that, thanks.  BTW, the reason that RPMs don't
> build from the tarball is because nobody bothered to include a
> gdk-pixbuf.spec file that had been run through automake (or autoconf, or
> whichever tool).  Not hard to do, just had to figure out what it needed.  
>         Greg

        I was able to build a new tarball with a .spec file by doing
the following

        [in the source directory containing the original tarball]

        tar xzvf gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0.tar.gz
        cd gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0
        ./configure [options]

        [validate the gdk-pixbuf.spec file]

        cd ..
        mv gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0.tar.gz gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0.tar.gz.orig
        tar czvf gdk-puxbuf-0.6.0.tar.gz gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0
        rpm -tb --clean gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0.tar.gz

        IOW, by running configure, a .spec file is created that should
at least work on your own system. Check the .spec file to make sure that
the revision numbers, etc., are valid. Then just tar up the new directory,
and build the RPMs in the usual way.

        This works with some other GNOME-related packages as well.

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Date: 29-Feb-00  Time: 11:15:16

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