Re: Creating RPMs from ./configure'd source

[Darryl Dixon <esrever_otua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or to be more specific;

%install
if [ -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ]; then rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT; fi
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install


Cheers,
D

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:55:22PM -0600, Chris Cameron wrote:
> > I want to package Apache, but when creating the RPM I don't want Apache 
> > installed on the system, but rather just in a build directory. The 
> > simple answer would seem to be add --prefix= to the ./configure line.
>
> The answer is to use BuildRoot.
>
> > This has to be a common problem to run into, what is the proper way to 
> > deal with this?
>
> Check how the httpd (apache) RPM in Fedora or RHEL does it. :)