New rpm/README file

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > No, you never need to run autogen.sh after untarring the tarball.
> > You should run configure.
> 
> See, I've lived in the CVS world to long.  For now, I'll just say that
> you need to run "./configure" before grabbing the gnucash.spec file.
> If in the future we ever build that file during "make dist", I'll
> remove the text from the README.
>
> Derek, if this looks kosher, can you commit the attached file for me?

Looks kosher, but I can't commit it now.  I can commit it in a few days
(if I don't forget)

-derek

> New text:
> 1) Obtain a GnuCash distribution (source code .tar.gz file),
>     either by downloading from an ftp site somewhere, or building
>     from CVS using "make dist".  The file should have the nomenclature
>     gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz where X.Y.Z are the release numbers.
> 
> 2) Copy and uncompress/tar the distribution in your
>     /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory.  You will need to do this as the
>     root user.  Note, use your distribution-specific path here, only
>     redhat uses "/usr/src/redhat".
> 
>     cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>     cp /SOMEPATH/gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
>     tar xvzf gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
> 
> 3) Build and copy the rpm spec file to /usr/src/redhat/SPEC.
> 
>     cd gnucash-X.Y.Z/
>     ./configure
>     cd rpm
>     make
>     cp gnucash.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/.
> 
> 4) Edit the spec file, you probably will only need to modify the
>     following 3 lines, depending on what features you want to include
>     in the rpm:
> 
>     %define _with_postgres 0      (use postgres backend?)
>     %define _with_ofx 0           (use openofx package?)
>     %define _with_hbci 0          (use hbci package?)
> 
> 5) Build the binary and source RPMs
>     cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>     rpmbuild -ba gnucash.spec
> 
>     (note: older versions of rpm use "rpm -ba FILE.spec" to build)
> 
> 6) Wait a bit, and a new binary rpm will be in
>     /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch> and a new src.rpm will be in
>     /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS.
> 
> 
> 
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