Program to produce spec files

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 13 11:58:21 UTC 2006


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> > Thanks, Paul. Tried the following:
>> >
>> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
>> > make
>> > make install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/videotrans
>> >
>> > but got errors:
>> >
>> > mkdir -p /usr/bin
>> > /usr/bin/install -c zoomcalc /usr/bin/movie-zoomcalc
>> > /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/bin/movie-zoomcalc': Permission
>> > denied
>> > make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> The Makefile for this application does not support the "DESTDIR" install
>> variable. You'll probably need to use the %makeinstall macro in the
>> %install section of a spec file instead of "make install
>> DESTDIR=/var/tmp/videotrans"
> 
> Thanks again, Paul. Let us try now fedora-newrpmspec. How should I use
> it to get the spec file?

fedora-newrpmspec packagename

Paul.




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