Build rpm packages with checkinstall

This is an example how to build rpm packages using the checkinstall tool. We will a program and create an rpm package from it.

The program

Here is our program, hello world:

cat >main.c <<EOF
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  printf("hello world");
}
EOF

The Makefile

To build our program, we need a makefile. Here is how we create it:

cat >Makefile <<EOF
all:hello

hello: main.c
        gcc main.c -o hello
EOF
sed -i "s/        /\t/g" Makefile