[Bug 474787] Review Request: stxxl - C++ STL drop-in replacement for extremely large datasets

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--- Comment #18 from Denis Arnaud <denis.arnaud_fedora at m4x.org>  2009-06-01 18:14:00 EDT ---
That's fine, if you like, I shall be honoured to go on with the review (thanks
Peter and Michael!).

As for the failing build on Fedora 9, I just forgot to enclose the 'BuildArch:
noarch' directive within the '%if 0%{?fedora} >= 10 [...] %endif' condition...

It now works well, as Koji shows:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1388361

Spec URL: http://denisarnaud.fedorapeople.org/stxxl/121/7/stxxl.spec
(as well as the corresponding Source RPM:
http://denisarnaud.fedorapeople.org/stxxl/121/7/stxxl-1.2.1-7.fc10.src.rpm)

As I have changed only the BuildArch directive, it does not imply any change on
Fedora 10, 11 and 12. So, if you agree with that new version, I shall approve
the package.

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As for the build system, I proposed to ADD a new one, not to replace the
existing one. Hence, (part of) the upstream team may still work with their
current building system, if they are happy with it (though I do not understand
how they install that library, since there is apparently no such possibility in
the current build system!). And an additional GNU Autotools build system would
allow (plenty of) other developers to build, install and package in a standard
way, without too much maintenance. That is simply what I suggested, and see no
reason why the upstream team should be against.

Without such a standard build system, it means that, as the main maintainer of
the package, you will have more work every time a new upstream will be
released. But, that is my $0.02, and as far as I understand, it should not
interfere with Fedora packaging :)
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