flexfax: Re: HylaFAX rpm notes

["Mr. Arlington Hewes" <tpcadmin@info.tpc.int>]

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, "NKG" == Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

  NKG> Hi, Arlington! I finally grabbed your source and popped it on my Linux
  NKG> box (which I updated to RedHat 5.1 last week). And I have some notes for
  NKG> you.

Thanks! Please, call me Darren - Arlington is a role account.

  NKG> 1.) The gcc-2.8.x patch was apparently not included in your patches.
  NKG> This is important for glibc users and now ecgs users for RedHat 5.1, and
  NKG> harms nothing for other people. I suggest installing it. (You've got
  NKG> this one, but there's a copy in my patches).

I will look into this, thanks.

  NKG> 2.) The default location for TIFFBIN in /usr/local/bin is not correct
  NKG> for RedHat 5.x I therefore recommend a config.local file for Linux that
  NKG> sets this to /usr/bin. (See config.linux in my patch files).

You missed the arguments passed to ./configure in the SRPM. I would have been 
happier if you had just assessed the RPM itself to see how it worked, but as 
you have commented here on the SRPM, then I will address your comments.

+ ./configure --with-DIR_BIN=/usr/bin --with-DIR_SBIN=/usr/sbin 
--with-DIR_LIBEXEC=/usr/sbin --with-DIR_LIBDATA=/usr/share/fax 
--with-DIR_LOCKS=/var/lock --with-TIFFINC=/usr/include --with-TIFFBIN=/usr/bin 
--with-DIR_MAN=/usr/man --with-PATH_GSRIP=/usr/bin/gs --with-DEFVRES=196 
--with-DBLIBINC=/usr/include --with-DIR_AFM=/usr/share/fax/afm 
--with-LIBTIFF=-ltiff --with-DIR_HTML=/usr/doc/hylafax-4.0pl2/html 
--with-DIR_CGI=/usr/doc/hylafax-4.0pl2/html/cgi-bin 
--with-DIR_SPOOL=/var/spool/fax --with-LIBDB=-ldb --with-ZLIB=no --with-AFM=no 
--with-DSO=LINUX --with-DSOSUF=so --with-HTML=yes

Hence you see --with-TIFFBIN=/usr/bin. Case closed.

  NKG> 3.) The "ghostscript" patch I wrote is apparently still needed to find
  NKG> where the ghostscript fonts normally live under RedHat. Additionally, a
  NKG> location for the AFM is not set (IMHO) correctly.  (See config.linux in
  NKG> my patch files).

Sorry, no dice. gs fonts are EXACTLY where they are supposed to be when the 
explicit ghostscript-5.10 dependency is satisfied. We've thrashed this issue 
to death, the dependency will be in there. I know you don't like it ;-)

As for AFM:
 
	--with-DIR_AFM=/usr/share/fax/afm

case closed.

  NKG> 4.) The default location for the HTML and CGI under RedHat is off.  (See
  NKG> config.linux in my patch files).

	--with-DIR_HTML=/usr/doc/hylafax-4.0pl2/html 		 			
--with-DIR_CGI=/usr/doc/hylafax-4.0pl2/html/cgi-bin

;-)

  NKG> 5.) The default location for egetty and vgetty under RedHat is off.
  NKG> (See config.linux in my patch files).

?? faxsetup looks for them and warns not there. Is this not adequate?

  NKG> 6.) I'm delighted that you included the fixhtml patch that I proposed.
  NKG> Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to make the web documentation
  NKG> work completely for other OS's. Many of the URL's actually contain the
  NKG> section numbers, which are just plain wrong for Linux. Therefore, it is
  NKG> easiest to simply delete these numbers. There is only one place where
  NKG> their lack causes confusion, where the HylaFAX man page is referred
  NKG> to in two different manual sections, and I think that's a reasonable
  NKG> sacrifice for accessibility. (See my manpage patch).

You lost me.

-Darren