On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 08:12, Todd Lyons wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:11:15PM -0700 : > > Todd > > > > This is something I was having a conversation with Guillame (I hope I > > spelled it right if not I apologize.) On dealing with Autoconf > > specifically. I've run into this wall a number of times trying to build > > or use applications across a number of distributions. It would seem to > > me that there should be or maybe can be a way to cross this line so that > > RPM understands some-app.i386.rpm and some_app.i386.rpm and > > some.app.i386.rpm are really all the same. With Mandrake I run into it > > most often with autoconf. (it looks for 2.5.x and 2.53 doesn't satisfy > > it.) Until finally I just built it from source, rpm'd it and installed > > That's pretty much my course of action too. > > > it. (All because I like Keramik go figure *grin*) Any thoughts on how to > > pursue this matter. I'd like to do that without causing any problems or > > stepping on toes. > > To be honest, I don't see any patches coming out of RedHat to fix this > because this is desired operation for them. I can also see a problem > with "greedy" operation (pulling in too many numbers, aka ignoring dots > when it should be honoring them). > > Blue skies... Todd > -- Well, I had to ask.... If for no other reason to verify that I'm not seeing things that aren't there. Thanks. > | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | > | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience. | > | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | --unknown origin |
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