[Rust-users] Patched makeRPM.sh

[Belden L. <bl...@ii...>]

Yesterday I found rust while looking for a gui RPM. After a few botched
attempts at creating a new rpm from source (fltk-1.1.4), I managed to
get rust to dtrt.

I installed rust 0.18 from rpm; the source wouldn't build on my Redhat 9
box. rusthq notes that the 0.18 rpm is for Redhat 7. It installed just
fine for me.

The first few times that I ran rust it didn't actually make an rpm. The
crust.log showed makeRPM.sh carping about a string too long for '[...]'
to handle; it's the test to see whether $INCLUDE is '-t'.

The next problem was that 'rpm -ba' was always being issued. But the
logic is:

     MAKESOURCERPM=0
     ...
     if [ $MAKESOURCERPM ]
     then
       $RPM -ba $SPECFILE
     else
       $RPM -bb $SPECFILE
     fi

I changed the test to

     if [ $MAKESOURCERPM == 1 ]

which then correctly issues 'rpm -bb $SPECFILE'.

However, makeRPM.sh still failed. It turns out that Redhat 9 ships with
rpm version 4.2. Versions 4.2 and higher of rpm have deprecated the -bb
(and -ba) flag; 'rpmbuild' should be used instead. So I added some extra
logic to check the version of rpm: if it's lower than 4.2, 'rpm -bb' (or
'rpm -ba') gets issued. If it's 4.2 or higher, rpmbuild gets used 
instead.

2 attachments; a unified diff, and the changed makeRPM.sh

Belden