[CMake] Creating an RPM package on AIX fails

[Eric Noulard]

2011/5/11 Pasi Valminen <pasi.valminen at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to create a simple RPM package on AIX with CPack, but my attempt
> resulted in an empty RPM file since the file list population failed. In the
> process I got a couple of error messages from `find' and `sed' which turned
> out to be pretty easy to fix to work both on Linux and AIX, which doesn't
> have GNU findutils etc. So, here's the patch:
>
> --- CPackRPM.cmake.orig    2011-05-11 14:13:05.000000000 +0800
> +++ CPackRPM.cmake    2011-05-11 14:13:17.000000000 +0800
> @@ -470,9 +470,9 @@
>  # file name by enclosing it between double quotes (thus the sed)
>  # Then we must authorize any man pages extension (adding * at the end)
>  # because rpmbuild may automatically compress those files
> -EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND find -type f -o -type l
> -                COMMAND sed {s:.*/man.*/.*:&*:}
> -                COMMAND sed {s/\\.\\\(.*\\\)/\"\\1\"/}
> +EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND find . -type f -o -type l
> +                COMMAND sed s:.*/man.*/.*:&*:
> +                COMMAND sed s/\\.\\\(.*\\\)/\"\\1\"/
>                  WORKING_DIRECTORY "${WDIR}"
>                  OUTPUT_VARIABLE CPACK_RPM_INSTALL_FILES)
>
> After applying the above patch, I was able to create a simple RPM package on
> both AIX and Linux.

I'll test and try to merge that soon.

Just curious but why building RPMs on AIX?

Does AIX now use RPM as a package format?
Or you want to build Linux-installable RPM on AIX ? ??

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