Hi all,
sorry to be replying to my own message, but I don't want to take
credit for other people's ideas.
Hans Ulrich Niedermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Bletzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is anyone working on creating rpm targets similar to "make dist". I was
> > thinking that automake could for example generate the spec file from a
> > template.
>
> I've implemented "make rpm" in my experimental automake-based
> package called "xtestsuite". It was more intended for myself to
> somehow get into the the automake/autoconf thing so the C/C++ sources
> are not very interesting.
Waking up, I just remembered the software which gave me the idea
to try it: At least some older (1.9.something) Samba releases also
contained a "make rpm" function. But as Samba is rather a big project,
it seemed too complicated to me at that that time to learn about
Makefiles in general, automake/autoconf in special and RPM packaging
from it at the same time.
Perhaps I should have a look at samba again now - I'd suspect their
rpm target is slightly more sophisticated than mine :-) Yet I don't
know why they seem to have abandoned it - they seemed to have done so
in the 2.0.[123] releases, if I remember correctly.
Cheers,
Uli
