On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:04:28PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Let me repeat it: We have GNU standards that guarantee you that > ./configure > make > make install > must work everywhere. This *is* the "easy install" that anyone must be > able to use. > > Why did you choose to ignore the contents of the INSTALL file and go > searching for a distribution specific spec file instead? I'd like to > know. The 'buildballs' project is attempting to address issues like this.
I think it's fairly obvious why I'd want to build an RPM on an RPM-based distribution, rather than having two conflicting gettext versions installed, one unrecognized by the packaging system. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
