[CMake] how to make OpenGTL rpm?

[Eric Noulard]

2008/7/17 Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net>:
> Eric Noulard wrote:
>>
>> 2008/7/15 Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>> but when I try to build the RPM, it wants to write to /usr (ah,
>>>>> shouldn't
>>>>> rpm building NOT need to install first?!), and if I run it as root, it
>>>>> installs but yields an empty rpm.
>>
>> CPack RPM shouldn't try to write to /usr unless there is
>> some abolsute installed path _and_ you are not setting
>>
>> SET(CPACK_SET_DESTDIR "ON")
>>
>>  **** Before include(CPack) ****
>
> D'oh :-). For some reason I was thinking it shouldn't matter. Don't know
> why, I should know better :-). Sorry.
>
> Ok, that's better... except for the gratuitous violations of Fedora
> packaging convention. I suspect it won't be possible to use cpack to make
> Fedora RPM's, at least not without a lot of surgery (for one, Fedora needs
> an SRPM, RPM and -devel RPM, also no RPATH allowed, and no RPM's containing
> common directories, e.g. /usr, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.)

I know that, the current CPack RPM support is a "work in progress".


> Anyway, thanks for the help! I now have a highly non-canon, but installable,
> rpm that satisfies koffice's check, at least on i*86 (llvm is broken on
> x86_64). Next step is making a proper rpm for Fedora, but I suspect that
> won't involve cpack (should be interesting getting cmake to play with
> Fedora's RPM building :-) ).

You may build "canonical RPM"
(both binary and src RPM) using the UseRPMTools.cmake macros
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeUserUseRPMTools



-- 
Erk