[PD-dev] RPM spec for Pd

[Miller Puckette]

Cool!  I'd better wait until Iohannes (the deb maintainer) verifies that
that "-r" doesn't break debian packaging.  I long ago stopped being able to
follow the autotools build system - it's all I can do to watch over the c
source itself.

If the Makefile.am fix turns out to be OK with everyone, I'd be glad to update
the "rpmspec" junk in the Pd dist to whatever you end up with.  Perhaps we
can then get Pd included in fedora.

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 07:57:51PM +0300, Vitaly Dolgov wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
> 
> Recently I was working on an RPM spec for Fedora as it doesn't have an
> officially maintained package, so I began to write my own. The spec is
> fairly simple, but there is the only one problem I want to discuss with you.
> 
> In src/Makefile.am on line 400 there is command for absolute symlink, which
> is an error for RPM package builder, so I fixed it with the following patch
> before starting build:
> 
> @@ -400 +400 @@
> -	$(LN_S) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/pd $(DESTDIR)$(libpdbindir)/pd
> +	$(LN_S) -r $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/pd $(DESTDIR)$(libpdbindir)/pd
> 
> I was trying to be as close as possible to INSTALL.txt, but I'm a newbie in
> Pd development as well as in RPM spec writing, so I can do everything
> completely wrong. I'm sorry if that's the case.
> 
> Is it possible to fix the aforementioned issue upstream or is there a better
> way to approach this problem?
> 
> I also noticed that there is an RPM spec in linux/ directory in repo, but is
> seems it was not updated for 14 years or so. Is there any chance you update
> it in a future?
> 
> Thank you,
> Vitaly
> 

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