On 4 Jul 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> Sebastian Dransfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The file /usr/share/gettext/po/Makevars is missing from the gettext-devel
> > package.
> >
> > And there is something fishy about the %makeinstall line, because 'make
> > install' installs the /usr/share/gettext/po dir just fine.
>
> Well it seems not: the /usr/share/gettext/po dir is installed by
> hand in the specfile (line #93-95); but this has been made by
> Jeff (Tue Apr 17 2001 Jeff Garzik), not by me, so I don't know
> exactly about this choice.

I can see that it is done by hand in the specfile, but now gettext should
install these files by itself. A 'make install' will do it, but not the
extra long %makeinstall.... line in the spec-file.

I think someone should try to run through an install of gettext without
rpm :)

> Why is the `Makevars' file missing? I mean, what is it useful
> for?

It defines 'top_builddir', which is used in Makefile.in.in

Sebastian


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