Is It possibel to have xawtv on Fedora 7 ?

[Adalbert Prokop]

Thomas TS wrote on Wednesday 20 June 2007:

> # rpm -ta xawtv-4.tar.gz
>
>         -ta: unknown option

What you need ist rpmbuild which is part of the rpm-build package.

# rpm -tb xawtv-4.tar.gz

You may success with this, but it may also fail.

> Inside the sources there is a xawtv.spec.in  but i dont know how to
> handle it ...

*.spec.in is not enough. It's only a "blueprint" for the real specfile. It 
needs interpretation by autoconf (?) to become a specfile.

> Anyway, the
>
>    ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
>
> do produce all the binaries... Now how to create an .i386.rpm from this
> ?

If the specfile from the tarball does not work, you will have to rewrite 
it. Have a look at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/

-- 
Bye,
Adalbert

Avec!