SOLUTION: bug in tool processes.pl

[W. Tasin]

Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 W. Tasin wrote:
> >In the generation-process of the rpm a temporary directory will be used
> >to easily get the whole list of files to be included in the
> >rpm-packages.
> >
> >see "BuildRoot: /tmp/rpmbuild_kdevelop"  and
> >    "./configure --install-with-root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"
> 

Hi Bernd,

> Sigh. I've explained on various occasions and a long time ago
> that this is the wrong way to configure. --with-install-root

if somebody wants to help us he/she hasn´t to read the whole 
mailing list, has he/she? We should be happy about any useful help.
And things like that will happen again.
So relax....

> is obsolete for months and is replaced with the 'make
> DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT' mechanism. I've told that the rpm
> maintainers. If they still have a problem, why don't they ask?
> I don't know :-(

... it is very difficult to check all installed files (and the whole
funcionality) for a fault like that... even for a non-kdevelop-developer
and even if it seems to work ... you should know.
[BTW: on machines which create the rpm this will work fine under certain
circumstances]

---> So why asking ;-)


> 
> Bernd.

Ciao 

Walter

>>>>> to rpm maintainer

so remember...

solution no. 3)
patch your spec-file

--------------
...
%build
... ./configure ...  [w/o --install-root]
...
%install
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install-strip
...
--------------

<<<<< end

-- 
oohhh sveglia.... il mondo e' ammalato, ma x colpa di chi.........
(Zucchero)
:-------W. Tasin, FB 04,
FHM-------------------PGP-KeyID:0x7961A645----------:
<Key-Fingerprint: 1610 835F 0080 32F4 6140  6CF7 A7D0 44CD 7961A645>
<http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x7961A645&fingerprint=on>