Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > No, you never need to run autogen.sh after untarring the tarball. > > You should run configure. > > See, I've lived in the CVS world to long. For now, I'll just say that > you need to run "./configure" before grabbing the gnucash.spec file. > If in the future we ever build that file during "make dist", I'll > remove the text from the README. > > Derek, if this looks kosher, can you commit the attached file for me?
Looks kosher, but I can't commit it now. I can commit it in a few days (if I don't forget) -derek > New text: > 1) Obtain a GnuCash distribution (source code .tar.gz file), > either by downloading from an ftp site somewhere, or building > from CVS using "make dist". The file should have the nomenclature > gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz where X.Y.Z are the release numbers. > > 2) Copy and uncompress/tar the distribution in your > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory. You will need to do this as the > root user. Note, use your distribution-specific path here, only > redhat uses "/usr/src/redhat". > > cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES > cp /SOMEPATH/gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz > tar xvzf gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz > > 3) Build and copy the rpm spec file to /usr/src/redhat/SPEC. > > cd gnucash-X.Y.Z/ > ./configure > cd rpm > make > cp gnucash.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/. > > 4) Edit the spec file, you probably will only need to modify the > following 3 lines, depending on what features you want to include > in the rpm: > > %define _with_postgres 0 (use postgres backend?) > %define _with_ofx 0 (use openofx package?) > %define _with_hbci 0 (use hbci package?) > > 5) Build the binary and source RPMs > cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > rpmbuild -ba gnucash.spec > > (note: older versions of rpm use "rpm -ba FILE.spec" to build) > > 6) Wait a bit, and a new binary rpm will be in > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch> and a new src.rpm will be in > /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS. > > > > -- > -**-*-*---*-*---*-*---*-----*-*-----*---*-*---*-----*-----*-*-----*--- > Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > Work: Extracta Mol�culas Naturais SA http://www.extracta.com.br/ > Web: http://www.jandr.org/ > ***-*--*----*-------*------------*--------------------*--------------- > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
