Re: Build librep error: autoheader: warning: missing template: XXXXXXXXX

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 31.01.2009, 23:46 +1100 schrieb Allan Duncan:
> > Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:27:19PM +1100, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > > > I follow what you are saying in general, but I have a problem with what
> > > > I feed into "rpmbuild -ba librep.spec" ?
> > > That and only that.  If this does not work that means that this spec
> > > file is not correct, or complete, or whatever ...
> > But the only way to get that spec file is to partially run the autotools.
>
> No. the specfile is beeing created by configure. so running ./configure
> --prefix=/usr (or whatever flags you set) will create librep.spec -
> absolutely no need for the autotools.
>
> Chris

Yes, ./configure will create librep.spec, but configure doesn't exist
_until_ it is created by the autotools.

From a clean librep fileset (you have tried it starting with "rm -rf librep"?)
you need:
    aclocal
    autoconf
    libtoolize --force
    automake --add-missing
    ./configure
The tar file you feed to rpmbuild needs to include these generated/linked files
or rpmbuild chokes on missing files, even if it eventually adds them in, because
it tries running ./configure early on.

If you like I can provide the log files, at nearly 1400 lines I won't post them
here unless asked.