On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:06 +0100, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > > It might be worth examining exactly what Debian/Ubuntu/SuSE do here. > > > > SuSE declares everything to be noarch - doesn't matter what it is. This > > really screws everything up. > > > > Debian/Ubuntu have an awful mess to contend with. Let's have something > > that works. I agree with what you've suggested Tom. I'll get on and > > check that my packages are not including .so files. > > Problem : the configure script generates the .pc file as well as finding > the bits required from pre-installed packages. Having noarch in the > BuildArch there causes the configure script to moan and die. It also > runs the automake things to generate the makefiles. How exactly is this dying? Is it dying because of something that the % configure macro is passing? ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging