Re: Building an RPM from a compiled application

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Building an RPM from a compiled application, Bill Woodward...:

>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)

This is the preferable way.  I've giving you rope by answering part 2.  :-)

>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.  

This can be done by making %prep, %build, %install, and %clean
just

	exit 0

and then listing the necessary files (built and installed outside of rpm's
control, previous to running rpm to do the packaging) in the %files
section.

Tim
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