On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Jaco Botha wrote:
> 1. Compressed man pages
> There are several man packages that requires .gz man files in the %files
> section of the .spec file, but there seems to be no way of generating them
> either in the .spec or the package's makefile. (Example: kdoc)
The version of rpm in our build system automatically compresses man pages.
You'll probably want to configure your rpm to do the same.
> 2. Stripping binaries.
> Again several package builds fail during the install phase because strip
> reports "File format not recognized". Is this a problem with
> binutils-2.9.5.0.22-*? (Example: kpackage)
binutils 2.9.5.0.22 got a bit stricter about returning errors vs.
warnings.
The usual fix is to replace
strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/*
with
strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/* || :
LLaP
bero
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