Request to add libkqueue to Fedora packages

[Eric Radman]

The request to add libkqueue to Fedora packages stalled some time ago,
so I cloned Bug 684446 in an attempt to restart the process

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889505

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Eric Radman

[Eric Radman]

I haven't been able to make much progress in generating an acceptable RPM. If anyone has more experience with their requirements and would like to contribute feel free to contact me.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889505 

One area of confusion is the distribution of libkqueue.a ... "_Why_ is the static lib being built?" I understand that they don't want applications and utilities to be statically linked, but how is this relevent to a library? Sometimes it's useful to be able to generate a portable executable, and by defenition I a library doesn't have a single use case.

[Mark Heily]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Eric Radman <eric....@gmail.com> wrote:

One area of confusion is the distribution of libkqueue.a ... "_Why_ is the static lib being built?" I understand that they don't want applications and utilities to be statically linked, but how is this relevent to a library? Sometimes it's useful to be able to generate a portable executable, and by defenition I a library doesn't have a single use case.

They probably want you to pass --disable-static to ./configure to prevent the static library from being built and installed. I'm not sure if that feature is currently working in Makeconf. However, I plan to add that ability soon.

Once I have a stable version 2.0 release, I will take a look at your RPM specfile and see if it can be modified to support the 2.0 release series.

[Mark Heily]

Here's my suggested changes to your specfile. I don't think there is a need to package the static library, so I removed everything related to building a static library package. Also, the "unowned directory" problem is fixed below.

--- libkqueue.spec 2013-01-04 17:14:21.000000000 -0500

+++ libkqueue.spec.new 2013-01-11 21:16:19.795151398 -0500

@@ -20,14 +20,6 @@

 %description devel

 %{summary}

 

-%package static

-Group: Development/Libraries

-Summary: Static libraries for %{name}-%{version}

-Requires: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}

-

-%description static

-%{summary}

-

 %prep

 %setup -q

 

@@ -55,15 +47,13 @@

 %files devel

 %defattr(-,root,root,-)

 %{_libdir}/libkqueue.so

+%{_includedir}/kqueue

+%{_includedir}/kqueue/sys

 %{_includedir}/kqueue/sys/event.h

 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libkqueue.pc

 %{_mandir}/man2/kqueue.2.*

 %{_mandir}/man2/kevent.2.*

 

-%files static

-%defattr(-,root,root,-)

-%{_libdir}/libkqueue.a

-

 %changelog

 * Thu Dec 27 2012 Eric Radman <eric...@eradman.com> - 1.0.1-1

 - Initial Build on RH 6 with separate -devel and -static packages. Based on work

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Eric Radman <eric....@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Eric Radman]

On Friday, January 11, 2013 9:18:53 PM UTC-5, mark wrote:

Here's my suggested changes to your specfile. I don't think there is a need to package the static library, so I removed everything related to building a static library package. Also, the "unowned directory" problem is fixed below.

--- libkqueue.spec 2013-01-04 17:14:21.000000000 -0500

+++ libkqueue.spec.new 2013-01-11 21:16:19.795151398 -0500

@@ -20,14 +20,6 @@

 %description devel

 %{summary}

 

-%package static

-Group: Development/Libraries

-Summary: Static libraries for %{name}-%{version}

-Requires: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}

 Thanks, I updated the ticket again with these changes and others

- Move man pages and libkqueue.so to the devel package

- Patched signal.c so that it compiles with -Wall, using %{make_install}

- Use the %dir macro for the include directories

- Inclue a COPYING file and include it with %doc

- Note that event.h is 2-clause BSD

To my surprise, %{configure} breaks the build by setting --target to 'x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' instead of 'linux', which changes the behavior of `uname`! I don't know of a way around this.

[Mark Heily]

I've been working on building RPMs for the upcoming libkqueue 2.0 release. See below for the specfile that I am using, based on Eric's specfile. It currently fails to build because of a few minor issues that I hope to fix soon.

 - Mark

Name:       libkqueue

Summary:    A user space implementation of the kqueue kernel event notification mechanism

Version:    2.0

Release:    1

# The entire source code is MIT, event.h which is BSD (2-clause)

License:    MIT and BSD

Group:      System Environment/Libraries

URL:        http://mark.heily.com/project/libkqueue

Source0:    http://static.eradman.com/src/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

%description

A user space implementation of the kqueue(2) kernel event notification

mechanism. libkqueue acts as a translator between the kevent structure and the

native kernel facilities.

%package devel

Group: Development/Libraries

Summary: Development files for %{name}-%{version}

Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}

%description devel

%{summary}

%prep

%setup -q

%build

%{configure}

make

%install

make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install

%check

make check

%post -p /sbin/ldconfig

%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig

%files

%defattr(-,root,root)

%doc COPYING

%{_libdir}/libkqueue.so.*

%files devel

%defattr(-,root,root,-)

%dir %{_includedir}/kqueue

%dir %{_includedir}/kqueue/sys

%{_includedir}/kqueue/sys/event.h

%{_libdir}/libkqueue.so

%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libkqueue.pc

%{_mandir}/man2/kqueue.2.*

%{_mandir}/man2/kevent.2.*

%changelog

* Thu Dec 27 2012 Eric Radman <eric...@eradman.com> - 1.0.1-1

- Initial build with separate -devel package. Based on work done by Mark Heily,

  Aditya Patawari and John Haxby