From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Sun Jun 09 2002 - 06:42:06 EDT
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:04, Mark Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 17:23, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 21:26, Mark Gilbert wrote:
> > > 2) Instead of 2 gtk and 2 gnome (with and without bidi), we should
> > > have one of each, bidi-enabled.
> > For me, it's two less items in a list on a pwetty basic shell script, so
> > I don't mind at all to keep providing rpms with bidi and without bidi on
> > STABLE.
> But the idea is that we don't do that any more. This isn't to make
> things easier on you, it's for bugsquashing, user-friendlying,
> site-maintainer-friendlying, and several other less significant reasons.
Keeping to what I said, uploading to savannah is really easy, from then
on, feel free to pick only the -bidi enabled builds :)
> > > 3) If we can build the application on a given architecture, we should
> > > be able to build the rpms on that architecture.
> > if --target ARCH works fine for cross compiling to athlon, sparc, etc,
> > it's just a matter of adding a couple of items to another list on the
> > same shell script.
> We went through this the other night, and at the time you went to bed it
> still wouldn't build on non-x86. And this wasn't cross compiling, it
> was native. No offense, but you aren't the only one who ever builds
> rpms, though we do appreciate having you make the 'official' release
> rpms. I and others don't have a script, just make distribution.
> No, it shouldn't be hard to implement, but it isn't done yet.
None taken (neither should ever be) :)
mayhap make distribution=rpm should just make a tar with abiword.spec in
the proper place...
> > > I'm fairly certain that this incarnation of the spec doesn't work out-of-box,
> > > but I can't do any more with it right now not having a working copy of rpm.
> > > I'm sure uwog and Sc0tt will fix it up all pretty and nice-like.
> > It does work out of the box, maybe not with make ...=rpm but it does
> > work with out of the box rh7.3 by adding abiword.spec to the root of the
> > tar.gz that has the source.
> Uh...I meant abiword.spec-template2 in case you got confused. When you
> came in irc, you hadn't even heard of it, and had to run off somewhere,
> so I'm assuming you aren't talking about the same thing.
whatever :)
Cheers,
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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