He was replying to me.  I got stuck at the point of "just grab the spec
file out of the RedHat RPMs."  I don't know how to do that.

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 11:05, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:58 am, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > Hello,
> > It seems that the rpm provided in abisource.com is only for Redhat
> > 8.0. I compiled from source abiword for Redhat 7.3. Is there an easy
> > way to make and rpm distribution for this?
> 
> The following is the quote of a response Dom Lachowicz sent to someone 
> else on the same subject a few weeks ago (hmm, maybe I should add this 
> to the FAQ -- let me know if these instructions are sufficient of if 
> something else should be added):
> 
> <quote>
> Actually, all you need to know how to use is rpm if
> you want to be technical. There's no special version
> of the sources needed to run on Mandrake. Just grab
> the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs, a recent AbiWord
> tarball, and then:
> 
> rpmbuild -bb <tarball>
> or
> rpm -bb <tarball>
> 
> Depending on your version of RPM (4.x vs. 3.x). Yes,
> it really is that simple. When you're done, email this
> list or me personally with a link to your RPM and
> we'll gladly upload it to SourceForge.net along with
> the rest of our binaries.
> 
> Regards,
> Dom
> </quote>
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 
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