Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for sharing this code!
We are currently working on the improvement of the autotools usage in 
Sympa, thanks to the work of G. Rousse.
Your work will take place in this wider context.

Regards,

Jason Giangrande a écrit :
> David Verdin wrote:
> > Whoa woa woa...
> > The "build_rh_rpm" target is far from being up-to-date. Actually, it is
> > kept in the Makefile for historical reasons, and in case we would have
> > to restart doing rpm ourselves.
> > So it is delivered "as is", without any guaranties it will still work.
> > Hence your problems, probably.
> >
> > As for the "sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi" file, it is generated when
> > building Sympa, from the "sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi.c" file. I
> > don't know wether the "build_rh_rpm" target activates this part of the
> > build.
> > It is normally performed by the "soap_server" target.
> >
> > If you can improve it, we will gladly distribute it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mathieu Kretchner a écrit :
> > > hello all,
> > >
> > > So I'm trying to build an rpm from sympa 5.4 sources on a centos 5
> > > server but I'm stuck with a damn error message.
> > > I'm doing this
> > > make build_rh_rpm
> > >
> > > But the first problem is coming from :
> > > the field Copyright instead of License in the spec generated file
> > >
> > > Once I've corrected this point I try to do :
> > > rpmbuild -ba sympa.spec
> > >
> > > All seems good expect this error :
> > > + cp sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi var/tmp/sympa-5.4/var/www/cgi-bin/
> > > cp: cannot stat `sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi': No such file or
> > > directory
> > > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33630 (%install)
> > >
> > >
> > > RPM build errors:
> > >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33630 (%install)
> > > D: May free Score board((nil))
> > >
> > >
> > > And when I check :
> > > ll /var/tmp/sympa-5.4/var/www/cgi-bin/
> > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root   6136 Apr  1 16:07 
> > > sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi
> > >
> > > I see also no sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi in the dir :
> > > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/sympa-5.4/soap/
> > >
> > > If you have a littre idea about this kind of problem please thank you
> > > to help me.
> > >
> > > PS : si vous parlez français c'est encore mieux :)
> >
> > --
> > David Verdin
> > Comité réseau des universités
>
> Here is an updated Makefile.am that should fix the build_rh_rpm (and 
> possibly the build_mdk_rpm as well) target.  Just run automake to 
> update the Makefile.in file.  I've also attached a modified input 
> sympa.spec file (now named sympa.spec.rhel5, which is the OS I tested 
> it on) that should fix most of the problems I've encountered while 
> building RPMs for Sympa. If everything works maybe we can get these 
> fixes included with the main Sympa release.

--
David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités