Re: [e-users] EFL 1.27.0 creation of RPM using spec/efl.spec.in

On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 6:04 AM Phil Otken <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> *Background*: I am in the process of re-building an Oracle Linux 9.3 server
> <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rebuilding-linux-server-index-articles-overlogix-9tmvf>
> (this is a downstream RHEL derivative, stable and conservative), got it to
> compile yesterday and stopped there to *RTFM*.
>
> Currently installed are the latest Fedora packages as a temporary measure
> while the build issues are sorted out. They work OK, but depend on Wayland,
> and freeze the whole computer if the KVM switch is used. Undesirable,
> unstable, hence the build.
>
> *Issue I need help with*: I see the file *spec/efl.spec.in
> <http://efl.spec.in>*, tried to find instructions to use it, didn't find
> any. I gather this file is a template used to process somehow into a usable
> *efl.spec*, which can in turn be used to process to a binary RPM package,
> and possibly also a source RPM package, very desirable. I also suspect that
> meson is used somehow to process this file, couldn't find appropriate
> material after a lot of searching. Bard and ChatGPT confidently
> hallucinated on the topic.
>
> Does anyone on this list have this type of packaging experience? How can
> this file be used, and what are the steps? Please dumb it down for me to
> fifth grader level; my expertise is elsewhere.

hello

i've no experience in building an rpm package but here are some hints anyway:
 * efl.spec.in are files where some content between 2 arobase (@) are
replaced with a value. Here it is @VERSION@
* to have a correct efl.spec, just copy efl.spec.in to efl.spec and
replace @VERSION@ to
1.26.0 or whatever version of the EFL you have downloaded
* then build the rpm from this spec file

note that the file is old and changes in the EFL have been done. You
should find an efl.spec from a distro instead of using it

regards

Vincent Torri


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