Re: problems compiling magicdev

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney technaut darktalker net>]

Yep, that worked.

Biggs, Gardner wrote:
> I had this problem on a few packages on my RH8 garnome install as well.  I
> don't know what the problem is exactally.
>
> Modify your /magicdev/Makefile to use your system wide rpm2cpio in /usr/bin,
> instead of the one in the /magicdev directory.
>
> worked for me.
>
>
> > When doing 'make install' in meta/gnome-fifth-toe, i get this error. I 
> > ran a 'make clean' in this directory so it would download the file again 
> > just to make sure it had the whole thing. I know this isn't necessary 
> > with the checksum test, but I did it anyway. I get the same results. 
> > Anyone know what's going on here?
> >
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/download/garnome-0.21.2/gnome/magicdev'
> >  ==> Grabbing download/rpm2cpio
> >         ==> Trying file//files/rpm2cpio
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/download/garnome-0.21.2/gnome/magicdev'
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/download/garnome-0.21.2/gnome/magicdev'
> >         [fetch] complete for magicdev.
> >  ==> Running checksum on magicdev-1.1.4-1.src.rpm
> > 590276c7a7d4a30efb26b536de1718aa  download/magicdev-1.1.4-1.src.rpm
> > file magicdev-1.1.4-1.src.rpm passes checksum test!
> >  ==> Running checksum on rpm2cpio
> > eb97001af3b1854e4592fc2576f942f1  download/rpm2cpio
> > file rpm2cpio passes checksum test!
> >         [checksum] complete for magicdev.
> > install -d work/main.d
> >  ==> Extracting download/magicdev-1.1.4-1.src.rpm
> > Error: header not recognized
> > cpio: premature end of archive
> > make[1]: *** [extract-magicdev-1.1.4-1.src.rpm] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/download/garnome-0.21.2/gnome/magicdev'
> > make: *** [../../gnome/magicdev/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2

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Andrew Gaffney