[companion-discuss] Re: spec files for building 'Solaris CUPS Print Suite' ...

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 08:16 +0100, Paul Cunningham wrote:

> Using gcc was the way the freeware-gate (CCD) always did it. I think 
> that was mainly because not all packages would build out-of-the box with 
> Sun Studio so that made tracking updates easier and quicker.
> I just continued that, in my spec files, because the 'Sun Studio' I have 
> access to is rather out of date (and fixing compile problems is not that 
> interesting :-) ).

Okay, understood.  I'll try to build them with Studio 11.  It's a lot
better in terms of gcc compatibility (and otherwise too!) than previous
releases so most code I've tried could be compiled with little or no
code tweaking.

> >    %define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0
> 
> I knew there had to be someway of doing it, but I couldn't work it out 
> so I patched it .
> 
> > 
> >   But it's not a good idea to do so.  It's better to use rm and rmdir
> >   commands in %install to delete the files and directories you don't
> >   want to include in the packages.
> 
> The reason I did it, is because when building CUPS pkgbuild says there 
> is a load of stuff installed that hasn't been packaged even though it 
> has been. I tracked that down to pkgbuild not coping with non normalized 
> paths (if I remember correctly). I raised a bug on pkgbuild for it.
> So yes I agree it's not a good idea but it was my work-around at the 
> time. I should have said why I patched it in the README (I forgot, sorry).

Ah, okay.  This is an open bug logged @sourceforge.net.  Will be fixed
in the next release (as I keep saying...).

Thanks,
Laca