Program to produce spec files

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 11:48:48 UTC 2006


On 6/13/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > Thanks, Paul. Tried the following:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > make
> > make install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/videotrans
> >
> > but got errors:
> >
> > mkdir -p /usr/bin
> > /usr/bin/install -c zoomcalc /usr/bin/movie-zoomcalc
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/bin/movie-zoomcalc': Permission
> > denied
> > make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> The Makefile for this application does not support the "DESTDIR" install
> variable. You'll probably need to use the %makeinstall macro in the
> %install section of a spec file instead of "make install
> DESTDIR=/var/tmp/videotrans"

Thanks again, Paul. Let us try now fedora-newrpmspec. How should I use
it to get the spec file?

Paul




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