[PD-dev] RPM spec for Pd

Claude Heiland-Allen claude at mathr.co.uk
Thu Feb 25 19:32:13 CET 2021


Perhaps Planet CCRMA At Home [1] has newer RPM specs?  I think they have 
Pd 0.47 (2019) [2]

[1] http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
[2] 
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/30/x86_64/repoview/letter_p.group.html

On 25/02/2021 17:33, Miller Puckette via Pd-dev wrote:
> 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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