man directory change (and other macro rewrites)

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Mon Nov 10 20:54:04 UTC 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:28:06PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:24:44PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> this's because on fedora man pages in /usr/share/man while on
>>> rhel/centos (and older fedora releases) it was under /usr/man.
>> I don't know why you're getting the failures, but this statement is
>> wrong. On RHEL man pages are in /usr/share/man just like on Fedora.
>> They've been there for years - certainly RHEL-3, 4, and 5.
> 
> In fact this is a bug in the mingw-filesystem package's definition of
> the %configure replacement macro. For native builds it is fully defined 
> with
> 
> ./configure --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
> 	--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \
> 	--program-prefix= \
> 	--prefix=/usr \
> 	--exec-prefix=/usr \
> 	--bindir=/usr/bin \
> 	--sbindir=/usr/sbin \
> 	--sysconfdir=/etc \
> 	--datadir=/usr/share \
> 	--includedir=/usr/include \
> 	--libdir=/usr/lib64 \
> 	--libexecdir=/usr/libexec \
> 	--localstatedir=/var \
> 	--sharedstatedir=/usr/com \
> 	--mandir=/usr/share/man \
> 	--infodir=/usr/share/info
> 
> But for mingw,its only defining the --prefix
> 
>  ./configure \
>     --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32 \
>     --prefix=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
> 
> We need to fix %_mingw32_configure macro to work the same way as the
> native macro & thus not rely on unpredictable autoconf defaults which
> vary depending on what version of autoconf the upstream app happened
> to generate their configure script with.

ok but which one?
there is a mingw32-configure.sh and also there is a %_mingw32_configure
macro in /etc/rpm/macros.mingw32. why these two different place, it's
redundant. does it really needed?

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