Bug 442924

Created attachment 303153 [details]
Spec-file diff

I've made a stab at including the library in the RPM. A possible spec file and
srpm are at http://mef.fedorapeople.org/packages/mcpp/. This is the spec-file
diff.

Note that -- because I currently need them -- I've included a couple of patches
from the sourceforge site into this RPM. Probably that won't be necessary when
the next version gets released.

... please?

Sorry for my long delay of response.

I will commit new SVN revision, which is a release candidate for mcpp V.2.7.1,
on SourceForge, and will write a testing spec file based on the revision here,
in a couple of days.

Thanks for packaging proposal, and sorry for inconvenience of the V.2.7 library
build and some bugs.

I committed SVN revision 99 at SourceForge, and uploaded a testing spec file and
a tarball for the test at:

    http://kmatsui.fedorapeople.org/mcpp.html

This revision builds a library version of mcpp with --enable-mcpplib option for
configure, and at the same time builds an mcpp executable which links shared
library of libmcpp, and also installs a few documents.

I devided the mcpp package into four packages (as Debian's mcpp_2.7-3 packages):
    mcpp        (executable)
    libmcpp     (shared library)
    libmcpp-devel   (headers to use library)
    mcpp-doc    (documents)

These packages are generated from single spec file by 'rpmbuild -ba mcpp.spec'
command.
How about these specs?

Created attachment 304399 [details]
Proposed changes to mcpp spec file

Looks mostly good! I suggest a few minor changes in the attached patch, based
on running rpmlint on the generated RPMS:

- moving the version-less *.so symlink into the "-devel" package
- adding "/sbin/ldconfig" to the %post and %postun of the libmcpp package
- remove libmcpp requirement from the "mcpp" package

I also made a couple of minor edits to the descriptions of things because they
sounded a bit weird in English.

I haven't tried building my own package against this yet but I will do this
weekend.

Thanks!

Thanks for the corrections, especially to my clumsy English!
I will take them.

Another suggested correction: remove the %{?_smp_mflags} from the "make" line,
or else things can get built in the wrong order and the link may fail because
libmcpp isn't there yet.

mcpp-2.7.1-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Thanks for the suggestion.
I had added the line 'mcpp_DEPENDENCIES = libmcpp.la' in src/Makefile.am of SVN
revision at SourceForge two weeks ago. The line seems to prevent compilation in
wrong order. But, I removed the %{?_smp_mflags} in mcpp.spec to be sure.

I released mcpp V.2.7.1 at SourceForge yesterday. Now I just committed
mcpp-2.7.1-1 to CVS branches for Fedora-7, Fedora-8, Fedora-9 and devel, and
requested "testing" for them.

mcpp-2.7.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update mcpp'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4313

mcpp-2.7.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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Not sure why this didn't get auto-closed ...