[bt-devel] Bibeltime beta 4 bugs

[Brook Humphrey]

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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:37 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 23 January 2003 00:27, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:08 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > Good.  Does the automation still involve configure, or is it in a more
> > > spec-centric mode?
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand. I use a little awk some perl to auto grab some
> > info and stuff into variables for the spec. The rest is passing variable
> > to configure. I have really optimized this for mandrake. It should build
> > on other systems also however.
>
> Ok, let me illustrate.  J Random User downloads the (singular) source RPM.
> JRU then executes 'rpmbuild --rebuild bibletime-x.y.z-r.src.rpm'  Or, JRU
> downloads the tarball and executes 'rpmbuild -ta bibletime-x.y.z.tar.gz' --
> but this requires a single spec file to be found in the entire tarball.
> Either way, rpmbuild will parse the spec file macros before executing any
> shell scripts in the spec file -- those macros need to be defined before
> configure is ever run.  These scripts of yours: any way to run them within
> a macro definition?
>
> The RPM rebuilds, with OS name, version, and file locations automagically
> inserted as necessary.  JRU installs the built binary RPM and is running
> Bibletime in minutes.
>
> Currently, one downloads the tarball, executes ./configure with the OS
> version, etc, specified on the configure command line.  The spec file is
> picked up, and then an rpmbuild -ba is executed, which reruns ./configure
> anyway.  Double work.   IMHO.

I think I understand. Hm my limitations here are that I've always done specs 
and make all my own rpm's by hand I don't really know a whole lot about 
./configure although I have had to patch a few scripts to look for the right 
dependencies or whatnot but for the most part I do everything with a spec 
file because thats what I know. 

I am compiling it again right now and if all goes well I will update cvs with 
the newest spec right away. After you look at it maybe you can suggest how to 
proceed.

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