Alice from Source RPMs
======================

This README explains how to compile rpm packages for the Alice system
from source rpm packages.


Getting what you need
---------------------

You will nedd the following source packages, in this order:

seam-<version>.src.rpm
alice-<version>.src.rpm

gecode-<version>.src.rpm

alice-gtk-<version>.src.rpm
alice-gecode-<version>.src.rpm
alice-sqlite-<version>.src.rpm
alice-xml-<version>.src.rpm
alice-regex-<version>.src.rpm

alice-runtime-<version>.src.rpm

Setup rpm build infrastructure
------------------------------

If you do not want to build as root, you have to setup some
infrastructure. The following commands create the necessary directories:

rpmroot=${HOME}/rpmroot
mkdir -p ${rpmroot}/BUILD
mkdir ${rpmroot}/RPMS
mkdir ${rpmroot}/SOURCES
mkdir ${rpmroot}/SPECS
mkdir ${rpmroot}/SRPMS

Now you must add the line
%_topdir ${HOME}/rpmroot
to the $(HOME)/.rpmmacros file (substituting the actual value of
${HOME}!). If that file does not yet exist (or does not contain
valuable data), create it with
echo "%_topdir ${rpmroot}" > ~/.rpmmacros

Creating and installing packages for Seam, Alice and Gecode
-----------------------------------------------------------

Use the rpm tool to build and install binary packages:

rpmbuild -rebuild seam-<version>.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ${rpmroot}/RPMS/i386/seam-<version>.i386.rpm

rpmbuild -rebuild alice-<version>.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ${rpmroot}/RPMS/i386/alice-<version>.i386.rpm

rpmbuild -rebuild gecode-<version>.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ${rpmroot}/RPMS/i386/gecode-<version>.i386.rpm

This assumes that you are building packages for the i386 platform. If
you are building for a different platform, the directories and
packages will be called accordingly.

Creating and installing packages for the support libraries
----------------------------------------------------------

For each of the alice-<lib>-<version>.src.rpm archives, you follow the
same procedure:

rpmbuild -rebuild alice-<lib>-<version>.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ${rpmroot}/RPMS/i386/alice-<lib>-<version>.i386.rpm

Creating and installing packages for the runtime system
-------------------------------------------------------

Finally, install the Alice runtime system:

rpmbuild -rebuild alice-runtime-<version>.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ${rpmroot}/RPMS/i386/alice-runtime-<version>.i386.rpm

Congratulations! You should now have a working installation of Alice.