Building an RPM from a compiled application

[Bill Woodward <wpwood dazel com>]

Hello All,

I'm looking for advice on building an rpm from an existing software
product that we've ported to Linux.  We have our own installation
procedure (basically, scripts that untar a tar archive and configure
some information), and I'm trying to fit it into the rpm scheme.  I'm
confused as to the best way to do it.

It seems that I could approach it in one of two ways:

1) Create a spec file that builds the source, installs into
RPM_BUILD_ROOT, and packages up the files.  This seems to be more how
rpm is expected to work, but it requires us to rework an automated build
environment, only for Linux (yes, we're not going to ship rpms on other
platforms)

2) Build normally, and just use rpm for the packaging.  This seems to
make more sense from our build environment, but I can't figure out how
to do it.  

Any opinions?  Similar experiences?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
- Bill

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