On 03/10/2010 11:54:52 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/03/10 18:39, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 03/10/2010 11:19:13 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> I will try to explain again. > >> > >> You have two roles of environments: > >> > >> 1. Developer/packager workstation. > >> > >> 2. Target environment. > >> > >> For example, 1 would be my computer, and 2 would be the old redhat > >> computer. > >> > >> You go to (1) and do: > >> $ autoreconf -ivf > >> $ ./configure && make dist > >> > >> Now, you transfer the tarball to users, the old redhat computer is > >> one > >> of them. The tarball will work WITHOUT ANY > AUTOCONF/AUTOMAKE/LIBTOOL > >> installed. > >> > >> I use older environments as (2) such as solaris-8. > > > > And you don't generally want to be running ./configure from within > > a rpm specfile, so the same is true of using the rpm tools: > > This is not correct. In fact, you often use the %configure macro in > %build, which does call ./configure. The only "allowed" exception > from > not calling %configure is when ./configure is not a native autotools > generated configure script.
Ok. I'm totally wrong here. But how is it then that Alon does not run ./configure on machine 2 above? > > > On machine 2 you download the tarball, the specfile, (and > > any patches the rpm maintainer wants to include in the > > packaged version) and run the rpm build tools on the > > spec file to build a binary rpm. > > > > Note that http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-scripts.html > > says: > > > > "Once the %prep script has gotten everything ready for the build, > the % > > build script is usually somewhat anti-climactic — normally invoking > > make, maybe a configuration script, and little else. > > It's %build which need to do the %configure. All patching must > happen > on %prep. But you are right, if there are applied patches which > updates > some of the autotools generated files, I believe autotools need to be > run again. Right, Alon? Nothing should patch the autotools generated files, just the autotools source files. Right? Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
