Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I took Philip Brown's gnutopkg script that's as Phil describes it:
> "A script to AUTOMATICALLY package any GNU autoconf/automake based software"
>
> and basically made it more robust in that it handles Makefile and
> makefile, as well as providing more information about the input it
> asks for, along with reasonable verification of that input to make
> sure it meets the pkginfo specification per the latest SUN docs.
>
> Using this script along with a piece of software that uses the GNU
> auto* tools will make packaging pretty darn easy. The hard part is
> getting the project to compile usually.

SPS already supports this in a simple way.....

The main problem with this kind of sources is that you usually need to 
find the right ./configure options to make it compile.

Jörg

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