Request For Review: lout (was Re: rpm package of lout)

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jun 30 19:22:34 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 18:24 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:25 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 14:58 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > > On 06/30/2005 02:15 PM, Scott Jan wrote:
> > > > I am new to Linux. I am interested in using the lout ( see
> > > > http://lout.sourceforge.net/ ) document formatting package. Is there
> > > > anyone who can make an rpm package for fedora core 4?
> > 
> > Easy enough. :)
> > 
> > SRPM: http://www.auroralinux.org/people/spot/review/lout-3.30-1.src.rpm
> > SPEC: http://www.auroralinux.org/people/spot/review/lout.spec
> 
> > Please review,
> 
> Some non-critical issues:
> 
> - compilation warnings which should be taken serious and be looked into:
> z07.c:317: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
> data type
> z07.c:328: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
> data type
> z12.c:395: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
> data type
> z12.c:436: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
> data type

Eyeballing these, they don't seem like anything worrysome in the code.
Its not being used as a conditional comparison, just to assign a type
for new document creations.

> - The patch hard-codes directories into the makefile. 
> A more flexible approach would be to propagate directories into the
> makefile using sed during %setup or pass them from the environment
> during "make" and "make install".

Fixed.

> I'd recommend to use
> ZLIB           = -lz
> ZLIBPATH       =
> instead

Agreed, fixed.

New SPEC: http://www.auroralinux.org/people/spot/review/lout.spec
New SRPM:
http://www.auroralinux.org/people/spot/review/lout-3.30-2.src.rpm

Please re-review (or approve).

~spot
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