On 4 May 2012 23:44, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
Richard Shaw wrote:
> I was having trouble building one of my packages for EL6 and I noticed
> it was failing during man file generation using help2man.
>
> It turns out that the cmake macros in EL6 use
> "-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON" where Fedora doesn't set this (so
> effectively OFF).
>
> This meant that there was no RPATH to the library required by the
> executable in the build tree and help2man was failing.
>
> Is there a good reason why this is the default in EL?
>
> On a side note. I wish EL would update to cmake 2.8. I had to do a log
> of patching of the cmake configuration to get it to build with 2.6.
file a bug (about both issues), we can at least fix the rpath one I think
There's been a BZ asking the rhel maintainer to update to CMake 2.8 for a while:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606892
thought the response hasn't been overwhelming. I am wondering if we
should go the route of a cmake28 package in epel.
Jonathan