Nathan,
   There is supposed to be, according to Maximum RPM and the man
page where you can directly query a specfile to see what it's
doing but I've never gotten results I could use out of it. The
method I talked about below has helped me more in the past so I
suggested it.

James


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:18:23 -0500
"Hopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Determing configure options for package
> 
> 
> > Nathan,
> >
> >    Don't know about regex but the src rpm installed this way.
> >
> >  rpm -Uvh xxx.src.rpm
> >
> > will put a spec file of the applications name in
> > /usr/src/RPM/SPECS  There you can view all the ./configure etc
> > information that went into building the app.
> 
> Yes, that's what I ended up doing -- well, actually doing
> --recompile then sending it to > textfile. Thank you for the
> answer.
> 
> It's a pity there isn't an easier way.
> 
> Regards,
> Nathan
> 
> 
> 
> 

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