On 03/28/2011 07:23 AM, Mat Booth wrote:
I would rather the app not have to care where the libraries are, but
for some odd reason the autotools in Fedora uses a default prefix of
/usr/local rather than /usr
If this is not a standard location then maybe this is an autotools
bug? I shouldn't have to tell the autotools where it is appropriate to
install things for the operating system it ships with :-/
Either way, I expect the default settings to just work.
They do if you follow the guidelines. There are certain parameters you
must pass to configure in the RPM spec file. The Fedora packaging guide
lines cover this material, see:
Start here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers
In particular read this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
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