cpp to rpm

[Paul Smith]

On 5/10/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >> > I have got the source of a program, which consists of a bunch of .cpp
> >> > and .h files. I would like to create a rpm from those files. Could
> >> > someone here please give me some directions in case it is possible and
> >> > easy? Usually, one only has to run ./configure and then make and
> >> > checkinstall, but in this case there is no configure file.
> >>
> >> Now's the time to learn to make real packages instead of using
> >> checkinstall :-)
> >>
> >> Some useful references:
> >> http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/
> >> http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru+guides.php
> >> http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
> >
> > Thanks, Paul. I will try to learn that, but in the mentioned case,
> > there is no configure file, contrarily to what seems to be expected to
> > begin the rpm creation.
>
> The configure step is not used by all packages. The general approach to
> package building is to follow the steps needed to build the package
> manually (as described in the software's documentation), and capture
> those steps in the RPM spec file. If a package doesn't need a configure
> step, don't try doing it. If it needs some other step(s) doing, do those
> steps, etc.
>
> > Please, notice that the last two links are directed to empty pages.
>
> They weren't when I tried them a minute before I posted. Sure you're not
> having problems at your end?

Thanks again, Paul. The problem is that the source file has no
documentation; I am trying to create a rpm of pdftoipe:

http://ipe.compgeom.org/pdftoipe-20051114.tar.gz

After a reboot, the broken links problem vanished!

Paul