May I remind everyone that when gnucash is built with postgres, that binary will still run on a machine without postgres installed. That's because the backends are dynamically loaded.
So I recommend always building gnucash *with* postgres, especially when building binaries for other people... --linas On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:26:32PM -0700, Chris Lyttle was heard to remark: > On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 20:16, Glen Ditchfield wrote: > > > > Here's a new gnucash.spec with added "Buildrequires" directives that say what > > packages are needed to build from source. If you build GnuCash from a source > > RPM with this spec, rpm will tell you right up front what packages you are > > missing. You should be able to install gnucash-1.6.6-1.src.rpm, replace > > gnucash.spec, and use rpmbuild to build the package. > > > > The other thing that this .spec does is use rpm's (badly documented) "--with" > > option to decide whether to build the Postgres back end. If you run the > > command > > rpmbuild --with postgres -bb gnucash.spec > > Thanks for that. I setup the previous spec file. I was aware that we > needed to at some stage add buildrequires to it but I haven't seen the > --with trick before. Is that a standard rpm switch (ie will it possibly > go away for whatever reason)? It does seem quite useful to us for adding > optional support for postgres. > > > > > Finally, I have a .src.rpm and two .i386.rpm files build from this spec. Can > > I contribute them? > > ---- > > > Thats ok, we'll keep what's currently on the ftp site. I'll update the > spec file in cvs so your additions go in the next release. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
