[ATrpms-devel] request for latest macros for mythtv-suite

[Karl Grindley]

Ahh!  Good suggestion!  Compiling now, I'll let you know.

Know of a good cmdline trick to enable -j02 on the makes too? :)


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Karl Grindley wrote:
>   
>> I'm compiling right now on EL4.4/Cent4.4.  I'm specifically working to 
>> compile up myth frontend to work on an embedded platform with limited 
>> memory.  There's an "--enable-small" flag, as well as some others of 
>> interest.  While I've done this before when i had core3 running on these 
>> boxes, i hacked up the spec file pretty good.  If such a conditional was 
>> in place going forward, it would make recompile easier for the next 
>> major distribution version upgrade.
>>     
>
> That's a good use case. Have you tried to simply pass %optflags to
> the build? E.g. like rpmbuild ... --define 'optflags -Os' ...
>
>   
>> Karl
>>
>>
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:31:58PM -0400, Karl Grindley wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Would it be possible to get a copy of the latest atrpms macros? 
>>>> (specifically for recompiling the mythtv-suite rpm)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> If you are using FC6 or similar: Add to /etc/rpm/macros
>>>
>>> %eversion       %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}%{version}
>>> %evr            %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}%{version}-%{release}
>>> %_initdir       %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d
>>> %_varlibdir     %{_localstatedir}/lib
>>> %_varcachedir   %{_localstatedir}/cache
>>> %_logdir                %{_localstatedir}/log
>>> %_rundir                %{_localstatedir}/run
>>> %_subsysdir     %{_localstatedir}/lock/subsys
>>> %_sysconfigdir  %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig
>>> %_logrotatedir  %{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d
>>> %_x_prefix /usr
>>> %_x_includes %{_includedir}
>>> %_x_libraries %{_libdir}
>>> %_x_module_path %{_libdir}/xorg/modules
>>>
>>> You'll also need to make sure you don't build under /usr,
>>> e.g. %builddir needs to be somewhere else.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Also, looking at the source file, I'm thinking of adding some more bcond 
>>>> options at the top for some of the other compile flags.  Are you guys 
>>>> open to contributions?  I'd be happy to generate a patch and submit it 
>>>> up when I'm finished.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes, of course, what where you thinking of turning into a conditional?
>>> I'm trying to keep usage of conditionals low.
>>>