[X2Go-Dev] Patch needed for rpm building (unless someone proves me wrong)

Michael Kromer mkromer at medozas.de
Sat Feb 11 19:48:15 CET 2012


Hello John,

> > Your proposed patches in this thread seem rather cosmetic to me,
> > because the functionality that you require can be achieved without any
> > patching as well. I'm not saying they are bad or wrong, I'd rather
> > prefer the makefile to be fixed properly instead of making it more
> > complicated.
> 
> Is anyone working on fixing the makefiles in nx-libs (redistributed)?
> 
> The fixes I made to the nx-libs build system were certainly more than
> cosmetic, and they work (I've been using them for a month now), but
> nx-libs is still being distributed with a horribly broken imake build
> system. I certainly don't claim the fixes I made are perfect, but they
> do work, and they do install files in their proper places, and that is
> better than what is currently being distributed.
> 
> Hence, my question. Is someone working on fixing the nx-libs build files?

we are currently in the process of making this job, yes. We have substantially made a lot of work for RPMS and general build environments to accomodate the standards in distributions other than debian/ubuntu.

Please stay tuned just for some days. I will make a larger announcement on this topic to this list as soon as we got the work done.

- mike



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