[omniORB] omniORB2.8.0 RPMS are available

[Sai-Lai Lo]

Bastiaan,

Thanks for the work. Could you send me the SPEC file and any changes you
have made? I'll look into providing RPMS in addition to tar-balls.

Sai-Lai

>>>>> Bastiaan Bakker writes:

> Hi,
> When looking for RPM's of omniORB, I found only some three year old
> mails requesting them, but no actual packages. So I decided to roll my
> own and share the results.
> The current SPEC file is not perfect yet: currently it only works on
> i386 glibc Linux platforms, because the SPEC file has a hard coded
> setting of the build plaform to i586_linux_2.0_glibc. Some 'if arch ='
> staments will have to be added to fix this. Ultimately I would like to
> see omniORB fully autoconf'ed, so I can just do './configure' instead.
> Any autoconf guru's out there?
> Both the SPEC file and the source and binary RPMs can be found at:
> http://alcatraz.webcriminals.com/pub/omniorb/ .
> The binary RPMS have been compiled on a RedHat 6.1 distribution,  using
> them on RH6.2 should be OK too, I guess.

> Please let me know what you think!

> Cheers,

> Bastiaan Bakker
> LifeLine Networks BV

> PS. For some reason the name of the omnORB source tarball and toplevel
> dir has been changed from omniORB_2.x.y.tar.gz to omniORB_2xy.tar.gz.
> OmniORB maintainers, could you please reverse this change? '2.8.0' makes
> a lot more sense than '280'. Also, in the SPEC file I can refer to the
> first name with omniORB_%{version}.tar.gz, for the latter I'll need some
> ugly regex to convert.


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