cpp to rpm

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed May 10 11:30:46 UTC 2006


Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I have got the source of a program, which consists of a bunch of .cpp
> and .h files. I would like to create a rpm from those files. Could
> someone here please give me some directions in case it is possible and
> easy? Usually, one only has to run ./configure and then make and
> checkinstall, but in this case there is no configure file.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Now's the time to learn to make real packages instead of using 
checkinstall :-)

Some useful references:
http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/
http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru+guides.php
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/

Paul.




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