add rpm dir and an initial RPM spec file

rpm/README.txt

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+
+A new-package review request has been submitted within the Fedora project:
+
+  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666301
+
+and, pending a successful review and the presence of the necessary dependencies,
+the libLAS package will eventually be modified to support current Fedora and
+EPEL (CentOS, RHEL) versions.
+
+In the mean time, a copy of the submitted RPM spec file is included here.
+
+-- Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com>
+

rpm/libLAS.spec

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+Name:           libLAS
+Version:        1.6.0
+Release:        6%{?dist}
+Summary:        Library and tools for the LAS LiDAR format
+
+Group:          System Environment/Libraries
+License:        BSD style and Boost
+URL:            http://liblas.org/
+#
+#  The next release will be similar to:
+#    http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.6.0b3.tar.gz
+#
+#  For now, we use a snapshot generated on:
+#    Thu Dec 30 01:54:04 UTC 2010
+#  using:
+#    hg hg clone http://hg.liblas.org/main libLAS
+#    cd libLAS
+#    hg archive ../libLAS-2657:06795bfa172d.tar.gz
+#
+#  and the above was done to obtain shared-library versioning.
+#
+Source0:        libLAS-2657:06795bfa172d.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+BuildRequires:  boost-devel, cmake
+BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel, libgeotiff-devel
+# Requires:     
+
+%description
+libLAS is a C/C++ library for reading and writing the very common LAS LiDAR
+format.  The ASPRS LAS format is a sequential binary format used to store data
+from LiDAR sensors and by LiDAR processing software for data interchange and
+archival storage.
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        Development files for %{name}
+Group:          Development/Libraries
+Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description    devel
+The %{name}-devel package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n 'libLAS-2657:06795bfa172d'
+
+
+%build
+#
+#  Note: -DWITH_GDAL:BOOL=ON is currently disabled since
+#    libLAS requires a not-yet-released GDAL 1.8.x version.
+#
+%cmake -DWITH_LIBXML2:BOOL=ON -DWITH_GEOTIFF:BOOL=ON  \
+    -DGEOTIFF_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="/usr/include/libgeotiff"  \
+    -DWITH_GDAL:BOOL=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo  \
+    .
+make VERBOSE=1 %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+#
+#  The following triggers an error in rpmlint but I can think of no 
+#  better way to fix it -- improvements are welcome!!!
+#
+%if "%{?_lib}" == "lib64"
+  mv -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib64
+%endif
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share
+chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/*
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING LICENSE.txt README.txt
+%{_bindir}/las2las
+%{_bindir}/las2las-old
+%{_bindir}/las2txt
+%{_bindir}/las2txt-old
+%{_bindir}/lasblock
+%{_bindir}/lasinfo
+%{_bindir}/lasinfo-old
+%{_bindir}/lasmerge
+%{_bindir}/ts2las
+%{_bindir}/txt2las
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+# %doc 
+%{_bindir}/liblas-config
+%{_includedir}/*
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0-6
+- put liblas-config in the -devel package, fix permissions, and
+  add RelWithDebInfo
+
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0-5
+- use a snapshot with soversion changes and add comments
+
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0b3-4
+- add SONAME patch
+
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0b3-3
+- fix license tag
+
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0b3-2
+- add comment about WITH_GDAL build errors
+
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0b3-1
+- shared libraries are unversioned so put in main package for now
+
+* Wed Dec 29 2010 Ed Hill <ed@eh3.com> - 1.6.0b3-0
+- initial package creation
+