On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Adrian Mak wrote:
I read many spec. file from other packages, they often execute
aclocal, automake, autoconf,autoheader in the %prep stage
I don't understand it can simply do a ./configure in the %build stage
What is the purpose they use these tools in the prep stage ?
To take the avenue of why %prep vs %build.
I often do a rpmbuild -bp, that is rpmbuild upto and including %prep.
I am then left with the source files, patched and ready to be built.
It is a checkpoint between building and getting ready to build.
Out of the many SRPMs I have modified, only a few did I need to alter the
%build section.
So to answer, they are patching, regenerating, etc the source, before they
do a configure, because they are changing the configure script first.
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