[OpenAFS-devel] what's "enable-redhat-buildsys" all about?

[Derek Atkins]

I've tried answering your question.  You can go read the sources
as well as I can to see what it does.

Good Luck.

-derek

Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Well, yes and no.  A Spec file is a complete process to build an RPM
>> package.  The mental model of what the OpenAFS SPEC is doing is NOT
>> the same mental model as a normal user building AFS from source.
>> The  --enable-redhat-buildsys is supposed to make the OpenAFS code
>> work with the SPEC's mental model as opposed to the user's mental
>> model.
>
> Why should the spec file's "mental model" be so different as to require such
> a parameter? It seems better if it can be made as similar to a normal build
> as possible.
>
>
>> > Oh? Works perfectly fine without that flag -- add it, and failure. So it
>> > clearly has _something_ to do with it.
>> Then this is a bug in the configure script.  Note that the SPEC file
>> does not support Linux 2.6.
>
> Sure -- it definitely seems like a bug in the configure script. My question
> is: how important of a bug is it? Why not just ignore it?
>
> Also, what do you mean by "the SPEC file"? The openafs 1.3.x build system
> seems reasonably well behaved -- there's no reason one can't make an RPM
>>From it. I don't see what the kernel version has to do with it.
>
>
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