[OSM-dev] OSM tools RPMs for Fedora Core 6

[Keith Sharp]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 18:43 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 18:12 +0000, Keith Sharp wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:53 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote:
> > > Does building mapnik really require scons? I managed to build the
> > > package using the attached spec file using the copy of scons bundled
> > > with mapnik. I replaced the scons dependency with one on python >=
> > > 1.5.2
> > > which is mentioned in mapnik/scons/scons-README. 
> > 
> > I'm of the same opinion as Dominic - programs should use system versions
> > of tools where possible rather than bundling their own private copies.
> > 
> > When I first started playing with Mapnik I was building using python
> > direct rather than scons, so I see no reason for your modification not
> > to work.
> > 
> > I was considering submitting some of these RPMs to Fedora Extras, and I
> > suspect that the review process would reject the use of the private
> > scons code over the system version.
> > 
> > Keith.
> > 
> 
> It looks like the existing fedora-extras scon'd packages follow your
> method. This seems a little odd to me though since i'd have thought that
> they would try to be self contained (as per autotools scripts). I
> undersand Dominics reasoning though. It dos add unnecessary bloat to the
> source packages.
> 
>   extras-devel/kdissert/kdissert.spec:BuildRequires:  kdelibs-devel, scons, desktop-file-utils
>   extras-devel/kdissert/kdissert.spec:scons %{?_smp_mflags}
> 
>   extras-devel/blender/blender.spec:BuildRequires:  scons
>   extras-devel/blender/blender.spec:scons

I would hope so given it was a bit of a cut and paste job :-)

Keith.