Call for developers: rpmbuilder

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Chris Evich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hopefully this is the right mailing list :)
> 
> Project rpmbuilder aims to provide a template-based approach to packaging.  In
> other words, it removes responsibility from developer to produce an RPM spec
> file the "right" way.  Instead, the package developer just feeds in his
> project's particulars, and a template-driven engine puts the pieces together
> and spits out a "sane" RPM and SRPM.
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/rpmbuilder

Interesting.  Fails to build here:

gcc  -D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__ -Wall -g -pthread -DORBIT2=1
-I/home/behdad/.local/include/cairo -I/home/behdad/.local/include/pango-1.0
-I/home/behdad/.local/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0
-I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0
-I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0
-I/usr/include/libbonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0
-I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libart-2.0
-I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2
-c -o template.o template.c
In file included from template.c:32:
macro.h:39: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before
‘macro_new_context’
macro.h:42: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘mc’
macro.h:47: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘mc’
macro.h:52: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘mc’
template.c: In function ‘template_expand’:
template.c:41: error: ‘MacroContext’ undeclared (first use in this function)
template.c:41: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
template.c:41: error: for each function it appears in.)
template.c:41: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘mc’
template.c:49: error: ‘mc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
template.c:49: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘macro_new_context’
make: *** [template.o] Error 1


> Given the recent discussions on dependency management, perhaps there is some
> interest in helping me develop this tool further.  There's no mailing list
> yet, so if interested, please contact me directly.  Thanks!
> 
> cevich [at-sign] redhat [dot] com
>