Re: Introductions

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

Hi *,

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:48:15PM -0100, James Ogley wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The problem is where distros (such as SuSE) install GNOME in it's own
> prefix, rather than /usr 

Yes, I installed gnome into /opt/gnome2 as well.

> - rpmmacros will specify %{_prefix} as /usr
> because generally that is correct, but for GNOME apps & libs you want it
> to be /opt/gnome.

rpmmacros will specify whatever value you set in your rpmmacros.

> I think this is for adherence with the FHS, but I
> need to double-check that.  But anyway, was just a thought :)

I have two rpmmacros files
~/.rpmmacrosG (for gnome-stuff) and ~/.rpmmacrosN (for stuff that should
go to /usr)

There absolutely is no problem with that.

ciao
Christian
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