Re: [Nautilus-list] Building 0.1 snapshot on machines without RPM 3.0.3

[david <david bishop dhs org>]

I don't see why this would be a problem anyways, as I remember slack 7.0 came with rpm as part of the install.
It just wasn't used very often. In fact, I havne't double checked, but I think debian even comes with rpm, for
use with alien.  I mean, yes, it's a good idea to put that check in there, but having covered the 3 main bases
(redhat-based distros, debian-based distros, and slack) it isn't a top priority.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 02:06:33PM -0700, Ramiro Estrugo wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > It is difficult to build nautilus on a machine that does not have
> > RPM.  There are several problems:
> > 
> > 1) The RPM dependency is not mentioned in the docs
> > 2) The configure script does not check for the needed RPM libraries
> > 3) Due to Red Hat stupidity, nautilus can't be compiled against RPM 3.0.4
> > 
> > I suggest making the rpm-viewer component an optional item, with a switch
> > to configure such as --without-rpm.  I don't have time to create a patch
> > for this, but I wanted to suggest it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jeffrey Baker
> > p.s. don't make us Slackware users feel like second-class citizens!
> > 
> 
> It would be easy to make this happen.  In fact, we've always planned to
> do things this way.  That's why the rpm viewer is a component to begin
> with.
> 
> The lack of a configure check and WITH_RPM define is just a bug:
> 
> http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567
> 
> thanks
> 
> -re
> 
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