let's build some RPMs. From Tim Ousley <tim.ousley@ni.com>

rpm/comedilib.patch

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+diff -ur comedilib-0.7.18/Makefile configedcomedilib/Makefile
+--- comedilib-0.7.18/Makefile Tue Oct 16 03:19:29 2001
++++ configedcomedilib/Makefile      Thu Feb 21 13:25:42 2002
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
+
+ all: $(TARGETS)
+
+-SUBDIRS= lib demo comedi_calibrate testing comedi_config
++SUBDIRS= lib comedi_calibrate testing comedi_config
+
+ DOCFILES= README `find doc -type f`
+
+diff -ur comedilib-0.7.18/demo/Makefile configedcomedilib/demo/Makefile
+--- comedilib-0.7.18/demo/Makefile  Sun Jan 20 18:33:05 2002
++++ configedcomedilib/demo/Makefile Thu Feb 21 13:26:14 2002
+@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+
+-include ../Config
++# include ../Config
+
+
+-CFLAGS += -I ../include -I .
+-LIBS += ../lib/libcomedi.a -lm
++CFLAGS += -I usr/include -I .
++LIBS += /usr/lib/libcomedi.a -lm
+
+
+ BINS=tut1 tut2 # sv

rpm/comedilib.spec

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+Summary: Data Acquisition library for the Comedi DAQ driver.
+Name: comedilib
+Version: 0.7.18
+Release: 1
+Copyright: GPL
+Group: System Environment/Kernel
+Source: http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/download/comedilib-0.7.18.tgz
+Patch: comedilib.patch
+BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-buildroot
+requires: comedi >= 0.7.63, kernel = 2.4.7, kernel-source = 2.4.7
+provides: comedilib
+
+%description
+Comedilib is the library for the Comedi data acquisition driver
+for Linux.  It allows Linux processes to acquire data from
+supported DAQ cards, such as those from National Instruments.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch -p1 -b .buildroot
+
+%build
+#called when the rpm is built
+make
+
+
+%install
+#install also gets called while compiling the RPM
+#apparently rpm requires all the files it archives to be located
+#in $RPM_BUILD_ROOT, so we copy over the files we need to save
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+#mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/include
+
+#lets try copying the install sequence...
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/include
+install -m 644 include/comedilib.h $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/include
+install -m 644 include/comedi.h $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/include
+
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib
+install -m 644 lib/libcomedi.a $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib
+install lib/libcomedi.so.0.7.18 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib
+
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
+install -s -m 755 comedi_config/comedi_config $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin
+install -s -m 755 comedi_calibrate/comedi_calibrate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
+
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/libcomedi
+install README `find doc -type f` $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/libcomedi
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man7
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man8
+install man/*.7 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man7
+install man/*.8 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man8
+
+#I'm not sure if I should include the demos or not, but
+install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/comedilib/demo
+cp demo/*.c $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/comedilib/demo
+cp demo/*.h $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/comedilib/demo
+cp demo/Makefile $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/comedilib/demo
+
+%post
+#post gets called on the user's system after the files have been copied over
+#"make install" calls install_dev, install_runtime, and install_doc:
+
+(cd /usr/lib;ln -sf libcomedi.so.0.7.18 libcomedi.so)
+(cd /usr/lib;ln -sf libcomedi.so.0.7.18 libcomedi.so.0)
+
+#ldconfig?
+
+%postun
+#postun is called after the files have been uninstalled
+
+%clean
+#clean can be called after building the package
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+#add whatever files here
+/usr/include/comedilib.h
+/usr/include/comedi.h
+/usr/lib/libcomedi.so.0.7.18
+/usr/lib/libcomedi.a
+/usr/sbin/comedi_config
+/usr/bin/comedi_calibrate
+/usr/share/doc/libcomedi/
+/usr/share/man/man7/comedi.7.gz
+/usr/share/man/man8/comedi_calibrate.8.gz
+/usr/share/man/man8/comedi_config.8.gz
+/usr/local/comedilib/
+
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Feb 21 2002 Tim Ousley <tim.ousley@ni.com>
+- initial build of comedilib RPM
+