Polish version of this FAQ (which should be kept in sync most of the times) is available here.

PLD is a recursive acronym (which are quite popular in the Open Source world) for PLD Linux Distribution. Do note, that it used to be Polish(ed) Linux Distribution, but that has changed many years ago and is no longer valid.

Up until May 2003 all crucial decisions concerning PLD were made by its (now former) leader, Tomasz Kłoczko. Many developers didn't agree with his way of handling things and, after finding repeated attempts to change the situation a failure, decided to stop using the parts of infrastructure controlled by Tomasz (including the most critical part - the CVS repository) and, by doing so, render him unable to force any decisions upon anyone. Tomasz was offered a position as a developer within the new structures (of course without the power he previously had) and decided, together with one other developer that refused to switch, to keep developing his own version of PLD under the original domain (the old site can be found at http://www.pld.org.pl/).

Go to http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org/ and click “Advanced Search”. Now in “Package name” field enter the name of package you are interested in. More exact search results may be achieved by selecting specific architecture and/or distribution version (ie. only i686 packages for PLD AC). A while after clicking “Search!” table with results should appear. Choose line with our package saying “/ac/i686/OK” and click “text” in it. This will show full log of the build process. Now search for first line containing “./configure” in which there should be all options passed to package during compilation.

First of all, one should check whether there exists a spec file named just like the package. If not, the name of the spec file can be found in the output of one of these commands:

rpm -q --changelog package package2 | grep '$Log'
# for already installed packages

rpm -q --changelog -p package.rpm package2.rpm | grep '$Log'
# for packages available as files

One can also use a more sophisticated command (just like before, adding a “-p” switch after the “–changelog” command and giving full file names allows one to query packages from disk):

rpm -q --changelog package package2 | awk '/^\$Log:/ {spec=$2;gsub(",v$","",spec);print spec}'