cpp to rpm

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 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

Instructions for building the package are in the readme.txt file. It 
uses qmake, from the qt-devel package.

Paul.