volunteer needed

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Jun 2 12:20:04 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 16:34 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:

> 
> 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. 
> 

Guess that means I will have to package it myself after all :-(

Too bad. Thanks for your efforts anyway.



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