[Xapian-discuss] Building RPM on RHEL4

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:56:18PM +0100, Tim Brody wrote:
> [tdb01r at shorty xapian-core-1.0.0]$ autoreconf --force
> configure.ac:112: require Automake 1.9.5, but have 1.9.2
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> Dropping the version to 1.9.2 lets it package on RHEL4 without error 
> (although I haven't tested it on a live system).

Should be fine - there wasn't a good reason to require 1.9.5, just a
good reason not to require anything newer.

> DAG rpm only has mono-1.1 for RHEL4, so CSharps out.

Umm (again!):

    BuildRequires: mono-devel >= 1.1

> RPM is 4.3.3 on RHEL4.
> 
> $ rpmbuild --without csharp --without python --ta 
> xapian-bindings-1.0.0.tar.gz
> ...
> $ rpmbuild --without csharp --ta xapian-bindings-1.0.0.tar.gz
> 
> ...
> 
> RPM build errors:
>    File not found: 
> /var/tmp/xapian-bindings-1.0.0-1-root/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xapian.pyo
> 
> Building the tarball manually I can run all the python tests without 
> error. Touch the file before using %ghost?

It looks like newer RPM generates the .pyo.  Just touching it into
existence doesn't seem a good plan.  I'm taking a look.

Cheers,
    Olly