Hi,

I was trying to build an rpm for the current stable version of elinks for 
SuSE 10.0 from the downloaded tarball. There were some minor problems, most 
of which I managed to fix. Here they are, in case you would like to fix them 
in a later release (I'm sorry I don't quite know how to generate a patch):

1. In the elinks.spec file, in the %changelog section, at one place Oct is 
   spelt 0ct (with a zero instead of capital oh). This makes rpmbuild complain
   about an invalid date.

2. Under doc, the html files have been moved to their own directory, so *.html
   should be replaced by html/*.html.

3. I assume the specs are for a Fedora like system, and certain -devel packages
   are listed under dependencies. For some of these, the header files and 
   libraries are included in the main packages for SuSE, so separate -devel
   files are not required. Don't know how to fix this in a distro-independent
   way.

4. There was some problem with locale.alias. rpmbuild complained that this
   file was installed but not packaged. I didn't know the proper way to fix
   this problem, so I just fudged the Makefile to delete locale.alias after
   generating it.

Finally, thanks for a very useful program!

Mandar.
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