Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)

Sun Oct 23 04:24:16 UTC 2005

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 01:11 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> 
> Does autoconf now have the ability to write spec files? If so, that could 
> simplify this issue for a lot of developers.
> 

Yes - many projects have foo.spec.in

When autoconf is run to generate the configure file, foo.spec is
generated - thus you can have version information etc. inside the spec
file that does not need to be maintained by the developer (ie use
@VERSION@ for the Version header info)