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This file contains information for people that want to build rpm
packages for the XForms library and its documetation.
1) While the name this library is known as is 'xforms' (and has
been so for at least 20 years) most distributions use a name
starting with `libforms' - for the obvious reason that the most
important part is a shared library. This requires a bit of
tweaking to create a package with the correct name but which
now is fully automated.
2) After having run
./configure --enable docs
successfully create the rpm package with
make rpmdist
Should you start from the git repository use
./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-docs
(note that this requires the autoconf, automake and libtool
packages to be installed).
3) Some build dependencies in `libforms.spec' may need a bit of
tweaking. First of all the `mesa-libGL-devel' package, re-
quired for building the GL forms library, seems to be spelt
as `Mesa-libGL-devel' on, e.g., openSUSE 13.1. Then there are
the dependencies for building the documentation. As I noticed
some of the programs used for creating the documenation are
provided by different packages on different distributions.
E.g., `/usr/bin/texi2dvi' is in the `texinfo-tex' package on
CentOS (which then automatically requires the `texinfo' package)
while on openSUSE 13.1 it's from the `texinfo' package itself
(and the dependeny on the `texinfo-tex' package is then probably
superfluous)
4) Runing `make rpmdist' creates three packages with (in most cases)
names of the form
libforms-v-r.d.a.rpm
libforms-devel-v-r.d.a.rpm
libforms-doc-v-r.d.noarch.rpm
where `v' is the version of the package, `r' its release number,
`d' the distributions name and `a' the architecture the rpm package
was build for (the third package for the documentation is architec-
tureindependent, but note that due to a rpmbuild issue on systems
with an older `rpmbuild' program it will also have a name of
libforms-doc-v-r.d.a.rpm
with `a' not being `noarch' but e.g. `x68_64'.
5) The resulting packages have been tested (on CentOS 6.5) with
`rpmlint'. There were no errors, just a number of unavoidable
warnings. These are mostly complaints from the spell-checker
about the word `XForms', and then there's a larger number of
warnings for the documentation package. All these result from
the fact that `rpmbuild' and `rpmlint' don't expect anything
else than `.info' files in the info directory. But this doesn't
take into account that `emacs' in info mode is able to display
images embeded in the info documentation - and they need to be
stored somewhere below the info directory. But then `rpmlint'
complains about them not being UTF-8 files and also wants them
to be gzip'ed (which emacs' info mode unfortunately doesn't
like...).
All packages should be cleanly deinstallable.
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