[Gllug] rpm from tgz

[Stephen Harker]

Hello all. I've discovered that you can make rpms from .tgz source files by 
going
# rpm -ta --clean blahblah.tgz
 and it works most of the time :-)
The idea being that I can cleanly install and remove all the crap I keep 
trying out and getting bored with. Yes I know about stow Bruce but I'm being 
stubborn!
However, does anyone know how I can pass arguments to the ./configure script, 
specifically to change th prefix. With rpms on Mandrake, stuff goes into /usr 
but most source code defaults to /usr/local.
I managed to build rpms of Xine and libdvdread etc... and finally got DVDs 
working under Xine last night. Hooray! Plays divx really well too!
Steve.
-- 
Stephen Harker
steve at pauken.co.uk

"The sooner we fall behind, the longer we have to catch up!"



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