volunteer needed

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 18:44 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I could use some help with a fairly straightforward packaging task.
> 
> The yorba team has made 0.5.90 snapshots available here:
> http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.5/unstable/
> 
> These depend on a little library called gexiv2, which can be found here:
> http://yorba.org/download/gexiv2/0.0/unstable/
> 
> It would be great if somebody could package gexiv2 and get it into
> rawhide, so that we can update shotwell, I currently lack the spare
> cycles to do this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 

hi,

An update:

The configure script provided in the package is a non standard one which
only supports the --prefix option. (try ./configure -h). Therefore, a
packager, in this case me, cannot use the %configure macro for the build
process. This also implies that the CFLAGS etc. will need to be exported
manually, separately for each architecture. 

That is way too much messing around in one spec file for such a simple
package. I've filed a ticket[1] upstream requesting them to autotoolize
the package. The package will have to wait until the ticket is
resolved. 

Thanks & regards,
Ankur 

[1] http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2001