[Ndiswrapper-general] another patch for relocatable builds and rpm building

[David K. <dmk...@uc...>]

Hi,

Giri and I have been talking a bit off list about making the build
mechanism for ndiswrapper distribution neutral, while at the same time
being able to build rpm's and deb packages.  I think I have this worked
out in a way that should be acceptable.  Basically, the makefiles now
contain variables that determine where things are installed - the names
of these variables are distribution neutral.  In the spec file, the
variables are overriden so that things get installed in the correct
places for generating rpm's as a non-root user.  I am fairly certain
that these changes won't affect non-rpm builds, but this should be
checked.

I am attaching to this email a patch generated using "cvs diff -u" that
makes the appropriate adjustments to the makefiles.  I am also attaching
the new ndiswrapper.spec file - this file should be added to the
repository.  The file ndiswrapper.spec.in is no longer necessary.

I have not removed the rpm target from the Makefile.  Nonetheless, in
the long run this target is not necessary.  If the distribution is in a
tarball named:

ndiswrapper-VERSION.tar.gz

that decompresses all files to the directory:

ndiswrapper-VERSION

then you can just do:

rpmbuild -ta ndiswrapper-VERSION.tar.gz --define "ndiswrapper_version
VERSION"

and it should build.  rpmbuild will look in the tarball for
ndiswrapper.spec, transfer the tarball to the sources directory and
build the rpm all by its lonesome.

Cheers,
David