Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > If you configure the tarball it should "build" a spec file from
> > the spec.in and fill in the VERSION -- so you shouldn't have to
> > do that by hand.
> 
> Hmmm, yes.  So, you recommend running "autogen.sh" after untarring the
> distribution?  Okay, can do.

No, you never need to run autogen.sh after untarring the tarball.
You should run configure.

> But, it just seems like a long way to walk to replace @-VERSION-@ with
> the corect version, and removing ".in" from the spec file name.
> 
> I wonder, would it be possible (desirable?) to do this when building
> the distibution tarball?  IE: could "make dist" build the gnucash.spec
> file?

That might be a reasonable thing to do...

-derek

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