On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 loic_at_gnu.org wrote:

> I had problems rebuilding the binary packages from the 7.5.2 source rpm.

How come? There are .spec files included that should work.

> I fixed this in the CVS tree, adding curl.spec.in and curl-ssl.spec.in. I
> also added a goal in the Makefile.am so that building the rpms is simply
> done by:
>
> make rpms

I'll move the .spec.in files to the packages/Linux/RPM/ directory.

> and do not require root privilege. I also fixed some of the
> Makefile.am so that make distcheck works as expected.

I do appriciate your efforts, but I feel I have to say that your fix leaves a
lot in a bad state. I applied your entire patch and then I made a new 7.5.2
release using 'make dist' and compared the list of files included in the
archives. The dist-version lacked no less than 26 entries (as listed with
'tar -vztf <file>').

Anyway, I'll commit most of your fixes and continue working on them until
they do fine. BTW, I build releases with the 'maketgz' script.

> I use curl for the new version of my crawler and I like to be able
> to re-build the curl distribution by doing:

Why do you need to rebuild curl?

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/