[Bug 585719] Review Request: wxformbuilder - The OpenSource wxWidgets Designer, GUI Builder, and RAD Tool

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--- Comment #11 from Alain PORTAL <alain.portal at univ-montp2.fr> 2010-04-30 17:09:33 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > (In reply to comment #7)
> > > rpmlint:
> > > 
> > >  - E: empty-debuginfo-package.
> > 
> > Unable to fix :-(
> 
> This package has a strange buildsystem,

Yes, it has!!!
It use premake (http://industriousone.com/premake) which use lua
(http://www.lua.org/)

> and doesn't honor %{optflags}, if it
> would, there would most likely be a debuginfo-package.
> Maybe you could try to patch the buildsystem to respect it
> (Just exporting CFLAGS or something is unlikely to work, but I didn't try
> that.)
> 
> > >  - E: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
> > > /usr/lib64/wxformbuilder/libwxadditions-mini.so ['$ORIGIN']
> > >  - E: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath /usr/bin/wxformbuilder
> > > ['$ORIGIN/../lib/wxformbuilder']
> > >    Must be fixed
> > 
> > I don't how.
> 
> $ rpmlint -I binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
> binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath:
> The binary or shared library defines `RPATH'. Usually this is a bad thing
> because it hardcodes the path to search libraries and so makes it difficult to
> move libraries around.  Most likely you will find a Makefile with a line like:
> gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath.  Also, sometimes configure scripts provide a
> --disable-rpath flag to avoid this.

I would be happy if there was a configure script...

> and: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Removing_Rpath

Thank to remember me that this page evolves...

> > 
> > >  - W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/ld.so.conf.d/wxformbuilder.conf
> > >    Add %config tag in %files
> > 
> > Fixed
> 
> (Not yet in the spec linked above)

Of course ;)
I didn't commit it. A such poor fix...

> > 
> > >  - W: invalid-url Source0: wxformbuilder-3.1.68.tar.bz2
> > >    ignore.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > A first look on license indicate GPLv2+, not GPLv2. More on that later.
> > 
> > GGPL sayed: Version 2, June 1991, not "or later"..
> > I would be please...
> 
> Look at a random *.h or *.cpp file. In the header you can find:
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> 
>  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> 
>  * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
> 
>  * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.


My apologies, I didn't investigate enough, you (and Terje) are right.

> > 
> > > You can use xz (tar cJvf ...) to compress the tarball, saves 10%. 
> > 
> > ????
> > x is for extract...
> > 
> > z is for bzip, j (as I used) is for bzip2...
> 
> He means: http://tukaani.org/xz/ another compressing format and not bzip.
> All rpms are compressed with that and that compressing format is better that
> the other. If you choose to use xz, you could maybe not use that on EL (once
> had a problem with that, don't know if that's resolved.)    

This is a misunderstood,I didn't know xz.
But I won't use it as I get enough problems with el5...
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2150700

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