[rrd-developers] fix for rrdtool.spec so that it can be used out of the box on RHEL4 and RHEL5

[Daniel.Pocock at barclayscapital.com]

> > Also I am wondering if it may not be sensible to include the php 
> > bindings code with rrdtool itself.
> > It is currently a separate tar ball, that is needed for 
> building and 
> > this breaks building via "rpmbuild -ta 
> rrdtool-1.3.99908121014.tar.gz"
> > without the option "--define '_without_php 1'"
> > (I admit that I can not test building the ruby bindings, so 
> I have to 
> > include "--define '_without_ruby 1'" anyway. So just an idea...)
> 
> the problem is that I am not realy into php and noone has yet 
> steped up to provide propperly integrated bindings, with 
> configure and Makefile support ... if someone does this, I am 
> happy to add them.
>
I've noticed this issue too.  I have a shell script for invoking
rpmbuild in a consistent way, nonetheless, it is not immediately obvious
what is wrong when someone runs rpmbuild for the first time and gets an
error message.

Maybe _without_php (or _without_ everything) should be the default?

Another issue with spec files: how do people prefer to manage version
numbers in spec files, particularly when using SVN to create branches?
One idea is using configure to create rrdtool.spec from rrdtool.spec.in,
although there needs to be some way to tell configure what version
number to use.

Regards,

Daniel
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