On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:50:37PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
>
> > > does anybody know whether the rpm files for development snapshots provided
> > > by Kayvan can also be applied safely to a Suse system? AFAIK there are
> > > some differences between the various distributions and the rpms are
> > > primarily made for Redhat.
>
> > i think they work for suse, too, since its still rpm-3, isnt it?
> > but use also kayvans xforms rpm
>
> Indeed, the RPM version should be no problem. But how about, e.g., the
> right directory settings for installation? IIRC there was some discussion
> about this issue recently because Redhat has changed their directory
> structure from 6.4 to 7.1 (I hope I don't mix things here).
>
You're right Michael. Kayvan's RPM use very few RPM features. I have
made recently RPM's that use RPM macros only (instead of /usr/man
(RH6.2) or /usr/share/man (RH7.1) I use %{_mandir}, etc.). They compiled
fine on my old RH6.2 system and new RH7.1 system. They should compile
under any RPM based system and set up the correct standard paths for
that particular distro.
Check out: http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/programs/RPMS/LyX/
If you're compiling the development version then install the source RPM,
change the version number in the SPEC file and rebuild the source and
binary.
You'll find the _correct_ xforms RPMs there too. The one on the LyX
site doesn't use RPM_BUILD_ROOT at all. It goes directly writing into
your /usr/X11R6/lib during the build. So, you have parts of it before
you have installed it. I fixed that and made 0.89 version RPM too, in
case somebody wants it.
Regards,
--
Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
