Thanks David, I'll try it asap. Modifying it to work
on my RH is no problem.

Cheers

-Hans-

"David Necas (Yeti)" wrote:
> 
> > is anybody out there working on rpm packages for 3.5?
> > I would be interested in a half-way working spec file
> > for any linux that uses rpm (need not be RedHat).
> 
> I created a functional RPM (I use it daily) on RedHat 7.3
> using this spec file:
> http://www.physics.muni.cz/~yeti/download/pov-rpm/povray.spec
> 
> It needed some patches to make it compile (no functional
> change) and to work with $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> http://www.physics.muni.cz/~yeti/download/pov-rpm/povray-3.50a-compile.patch
> http://www.physics.muni.cz/~yeti/download/pov-rpm/povray-3.50a-unofficial.patch
> http://www.physics.muni.cz/~yeti/download/pov-rpm/povray-3.50a-install.patch
> 
> And some default I/O restriction configuration file
> http://www.physics.muni.cz/~yeti/download/pov-rpm/povconf.tar.gz
> 
> (Actually the -compile patch also cleans a few float ->
> integer casting warnings; it's not necessary, but makes no
> harm.)
> 
> It however doesn't work on a vanilla RedHat, since it
> assumes automake-1.6 and autoconf-2.53, so there are some
> trick inside the spec to make it use the old automake and
> autoconf.  These should be probably removed to make it work
> on default install.
> 
> Compiled with gcc-3.1.
> 
> Hope it helps -- you've asked for half-way working spec, now
> you have what you've asked for ;->
> 
> Yeti

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