[vlc] Re: Warning - RedHat 8.0 rpms

[Bill Eldridge]

Bill Eldridge wrote:

> Alexis de Lattre wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Mar 11, 2003, Bill Eldridge wrote :
>>  
>>
>>>Just a warning for those thinking about installing
>>>RedHat rpm's, I've pretty well gone through dependency
>>>hell (this package depends on 3 others that depend on
>>>7 others that depend on...) on it every time I've tried
>>>to install.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>I added a warning on the VLC for RedHat page and advised to compile from
>>sources.
>>
>>Do you have some experience with RPM building ? Could you try to build
>>new ones ?
>>
>>  
>>
> You mean make the spec file itself? Yeah, I did it once before
> for either vlc or vls, basically just hacked the existing one
> to remove all the dependencies I didn't have, so I'll try
> doing this again when I get to work.
>
> The neat way is to have the configure script automatically
> create the spec file, so then it's almost guaranteed to work
> for that system if configure didn't fail.

Okay, looking at it, the current process will
export the vlc.spec if vls.spec is added to Makefile.am
and configure.ac.in, with automake and autoconf
rerun.

The main things that are needed is a fairly generic
vlc.spec.in as a template, and knowing the right
symbol to export all the configure parameters
like --without-wx to the configure line in vlc.spec
(I tried it as $@ and ${@}, but it doesn't expand -
perhaps something more like %{expand:$@}

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