building rpm from tar.gz od bz2

[Randy Kelsoe]

Michal Zeravik wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I red in rpmbuild manual It's possible to build
> binary package from tar archive.
> All I need is to pass right arguments to ./configure script,
> make and build rpm package.
> Does exist any simple way to do it without spec file?
> For example build rpm after make.
>
You might want to look at checkinstall:

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

With checkinstall, you untar your source code, run ./configure, then run 
checkinstall.  checkinstall then builds and installs an RPM package for you.