[Mimedefang] Drifting OT Re: configure in wrong part of RPM spec file

[Kelson Vibber]

At 10:15 AM 9/9/2003, Kris Deugau wrote:
>Because "prep" in the context of rpm-building means "prepare to execute
>make".  For a somewhat more detailed "Why?", ask in linux.redhat.rpm, or
>redhat.rpm.general.  <g>

Interesting.  The examples at www.rpm.org (including the RPM HOWTO, the 
Mandrake RPM HOWTO, and the FreshRPMs essay, "The Fight") all seem to put 
configure in the build section, not prep.

Admittedly the RPM HOWTO's description of what's *supposed* to go there is 
contradictory.  Prep is decscribed as "anything necessary to get the 
sources patched and setup like they need to be setup to do a make," but 
Build is described as "any commands... that you would need to use to build 
the software once you had untarred the source, patched it, and cd'ed into 
the directory."


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>