Failing to find src rpms for KDE 3.0.5 for mandrake, I had to resort to Redhat 8.0 src rpms. I can get around the differences without too much difficulty except for one brain-dead feature of RPM. A feature that I hope I am wrong about and someone will correct me.
I just spent about an hour trying to build a kdelibs-3.0.5 src rpm. It was almost finished but then crapped out because of a kdoc problem. <Rant> Building an RPM should NOT be dependent upon noncritical issues like documents or other nonintegral froo-froo. Perhaps Mandrake could FIX Redhat's broken RPM by making it more fault tolerant so that rpm builds can be completed inspite of missing or failing a noncritical portion (like doc generation)?! </Rant> OK, that said, my build attempt died when qt2kdoc was trying to run to convert, I believe, qtdocs into kdocs: qt2kdoc /doc/html There IS no /doc directory which is what I suspect the problem was. I am still unable to find the file that tells the make process to look for qt docs in /doc/html but that is besides my point. Is there a way to continue an rpm build rather than have to start all over again? It was DONE compiling and was simply doing extraneous froo-froo tidying up before creating/writing the rpms. If I do an rpm --rebuild or rpm -bb kdelibs.spec, I am stuck starting over from scratch from untarring to reconfiguring to rebuilding. Is there a way to resume a build? praedor
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