[Dave Hill]
> I have an RPM build file to build sane if anyone is interested in
> adding it to the CVS for me.
Sounds good to me. Post the file and the patch to the list so we can
have a look at it.
Will you be building RPMs when the new release is done?
> It requires a simple patch to the Makefile.in files to allow a
> variable $(DESTDIR) to be prepended to all the install paths whilst
> building the binary RPM.
I believe the normal GNU autoconf name for this variable is $(prefix).
> It will also need the version number updating whenever the main
> version number changes. Is there some automated way that this is
> done when a release is done (i.e. at the same time that configure.in
> is updated)?
This should be possible with a simple autoconf search-n-replace.
> Of course the trick is that you need to extract the RPM build file
> from the tar.gz file to be able to build it, unless it is just added
> to th FTP site separately.
I guess it should be both places. :-)
-- ##> Petter Reinholdtsen <## | pere@td.org.uit.no O- <SCRIPT Language="Javascript">window.close()</SCRIPT> http://www.hungry.com/~pere/ | Go Mozilla, go! Go!-- Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 22 2000 - 18:28:01 PST