Re: Introductions

[Christian Lohmaier <cloph cup uni-muenchen de>]

Hi *,

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:47:09PM -0100, James Ogley wrote:
> 
> Thought I'd send a quick email to the list, partly by way of
> introduction, but also as a ping to see if anything's really happening
> with the GPP (the latest news on the site is for GNOME 1.4 packages!).

Well, then "pong" :-)

> [...] 
> My mind turned to the GPP because I just did some work on Tomboy, adding
> the functionality to it's .spec.in file to allow the .spec that results
> from auto* to be used with the format rpmbuild -ba --with suse
> tomboy.spec to build with SuSE prefix etc as opposed to Red Hat/Fedora
> specifications.  Seemed to me that the same rpm-fu could be applied
> across the board to GNOME to make it RPM-able on multiple distros
> straight out of FTP, any thoughts?

I personally don't like to much magic in the spec-files themselves. I
prefere a simple %configure %make %makeinstall

Whenever you want to build with certain requirements you can use the
approptiate rpmmacros file.

ciao
Christian
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