Re: Compiling rep-gtk on Slackware 12.0

[jadamson partners org (Joel J. Adamson)]

Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:05:12AM -0400, Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>> Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com> writes:
>> > Here are corresponding
>> > lines from my spec file for rep-gtk:
>> >
>> > make %{?_smp_mflags} host_type=%{_target_platform} \
>> >     'rep_LIBTOOL = $(repcommonexecdir)/libtool --tag=CXX'
>> 
>> I can't locate this line in the Makefile.in or resulting Makefile.
>
> Of course not.  This is a make invocation which is using
> additional arguments.  Those "%{...}" are rpmbuild macros which
> expand to something reasonable.  Adjust to your circumstances and
> taste.

I see what you mean; that's "make" on the command-line, I failed to
notice that.

>> Nevertheless adding "--tag=..." to the only line I could find doesn't
>> add it to the resulting line after the make command.
>
> It does not - obviously enough; but setting rep_LIBTOOL to something
> else than a default is what makes that diference here.  Quotes
> are vitally important.

Dude, stop saying "obvious."

Okay, I just compiled it successfully with this:

,----
| make "rep_LIBTOOL = /usr/libexec/rep/i486-slackware-linux-gnu/libtool --tag=CC"
`----

Incremental success!  The bane of time management!

Joel

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