Re: source builds vs. RPMs (was: Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles)

2010-06-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:04:28PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Let me repeat it: We have GNU standards that guarantee you that > ./configure > make > make install > must work everywhere. This *is* the "easy install" that anyone must be > able to use. > > Why did you choose to ignore the con

source builds vs. RPMs (was: Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles)

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Well OK - I was trying to build an RPM from the existing Fedora > > Rawhide spec If the Fedora 'maintainer' for gettext has not provided an RPM in a month - the Debian 'maintainer' for gettext has delivered his package on May 18 -, you can certainly jump in and do the