ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.4b1 rpm

[Jean-Luc Fontaine]

Actually, I am just posting the specification file:

http://jfontain.free.fr/tcltk-8.4b1-1.spec

because the binaries are just too big for my ******* internet
connection...

Do not worry though: rpms are easy to build:
- grab the Tcl/Tk tarballs from sourceforge and put them in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
- put the spec file above in /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/
- from that directory, as root:
# rpm -bb --clean tcltk-8.4b1-1.spec

wait a while depending on your computer speed, and voila!

PS: maybe the binaries could be hosted at sourceforge?

Jean-Luc

[John Ellson]

Why not include these .spec files in the main tcl and tk source trees in cvs?
Then anyone can build rpms from the tarballs with:

rpm -ta tcl-8.4b1.tar.gz

John Ellson

[Pascal Scheffers]

On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:14:21 +0200, Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote:

Your .spec file unpacks and builds in /var/tmp and installs Tcl/Tk in
/opt/tcltk. IIRC, it should be /tmp for the BuildRoot and /usr for install
(the 'directory' in your .spec), I don't have /opt and my /var/tmp isn't
big enough for most builds.

> PS: maybe the binaries could be hosted at sourceforge?

Hmmm. Shouldn't those be built on 'clean' machines? One that only has the
RPMs from the original RedHat CDs installed? I could be wrong but if you
were to compile against a later version of libc, the packages may not run
on a fresh install.

Regards,
- Pascal.