I am trying to jugle with automake and rpmbuild to get an RPM built with the documentation in the proper place. I tried many things, but I never succeded to get my documentation installed where I want. When the documentation is installed in the right place using "make install", rpmbuild can't get the documentation or complains.
Anybody has a good receipe for doings this?
I have the following defined:
nobase_pkgdata_DATA = \ AUTHORS \ COPYING \ ChangeLog \ INSTALL \ NEWS \ README \ doc/apt-build.html \ doc/apt-build.pdf \ doc/apt-build.ps \ doc/apt-build.txt
But this is not great, since "make install" sends this to /tmp/apt-build/share/apt-build (--prefix==/tmp/apt-build). Here is the content:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /tmp/apt-build/share/apt-build AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING doc/ INSTALL NEWS README
Now, I would like to have everything under the doc/ directory. It would be more clean. But in the source directory, I cannot move COPYING and all the other files into doc/ without having automake complaining.
Also, when I build the RPM, what should I put in %doc? When I have the following declared:
%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README doc/apt-build.html doc/apt-build.pdf doc/apt-build.ps doc/apt-build.txt
I get the following errors:
error: File must begin with "/": AUTHORS error: File must begin with "/": COPYING error: File must begin with "/": ChangeLog error: File must begin with "/": INSTALL error: File must begin with "/": NEWS error: File must begin with "/": README error: File must begin with "/": doc/apt-build.html error: File must begin with "/": doc/apt-build.pdf error: File must begin with "/": doc/apt-build.ps error: File must begin with "/": doc/apt-build.txt
If I hardcode the paths:
%doc /usr/share/apt-build/AUTHORS /usr/share/apt-build/COPYING /usr/share/apt-build/ChangeLog /usr/share/apt-build/INSTALL /usr/share/apt-build/NEWS /usr/share/apt-build/README /usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.html /usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.pdf /usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.ps /usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.txt
the RPM is built, but the documentation is exactly in these directories, which is wrong since it should be under /usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0. In other words, using absolute paths bypass rpmbuilds %doc settings regarding the path where the documents should be stored.
This is driving me crazy. I wish that there was a simple syntaxe like:
AUTHORS => %{_pgkdata}/doc
for Automake and RPM to directly specify without ambiguity where the files should be moved.
Best regards, Hans Deragon -- Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant Deragon Informatique inc. Open source: http://www.deragon.biz http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Automatically poweroff home servers)
