Sorry for the self-reply. I've discovered some more with some more digging. In article <hntuln$b5$1 at dough.gmane.org> you wrote: > 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 This looks to have improved in trunk, but the other codecs should ideally be treated similarly. > 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 Things still seem to be statically linked. > 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 Still seems to be broken by third_party. > 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. Since there are existing snippets, I could help with the external library support here. > 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. There are other SIP clients/servers which ship with support with the codecs, so they should be good for inclusion in Fedora. --Ben
