Hi,
I'd like to make RPMs for Fedora (with the intention getting it packaged
into Fedora or RPMFusion[1]), but I've run into a few problems that would hinder
proper packaging:
NEED: Bundling libraries is a no-no in Fedora. Is it possible to get
support for building with system copies of codecs? From my limited
knowledge of the autotools, it seems it only bothers to check the
third_party directory.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Shared_Libraries
NEED: Build shared libraries. Static libraries are frowned upon within
Fedora.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
WANT: Support for parallel make would be nice. Mostly the issues seem to
come from the third_party directory not being built before the pj*
code when doing a parallel build.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Parallel_make
I can help with some things here, but since my knowledge of the
autotools suite is fairly minimal, not sure how much I can help there. I
can however offer test results on the following platforms:
Fedora 12 x86_64
Fedora 13 i686
Fedora 13 x86_64
--Ben
[1] It would need to go to RPMFusion if the codecs that are patent
encumbered must be built-in to be accessible (as opposed to as
plugins where just the codecs could then be put into RPMFusion and
pjsip itself can go into Fedora.
