Re: gnome-fifth-toe build issues?

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 10:44, David Fallon wrote:
> So, while trying to put together the ultimate gnome desktop, I've been
> continually running into dependancy issues with the gnome-fifth-toe
> packages. Are there plans to add the deps to the build process (i.e, I
> should figure it out myself), or should they be treated as core
> dependancies?
> 
> Two other quick things - is there any way to have garnome dump all the
> tar files into one dir, so it's easier to create a local cache as I
> build this on other machines? Or otherwise come up with a list of all
> the packages I need to download?

There's a thread that discusses how to do this in detail. Search for it.

The simple answer: cd garnome-0.24.2 and make garchive

> Finally, I'm on RH 9 - when trying to build stuff from src.rpms, like
> the misc/redhat-artwork package, the package downloads fine, passes the
> crc check, but I get a "Error: header not recognized", "cpio: premature
> end of archive" while building. I presume this is some sort of
> incompatibility, any fixes for this?

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome/redhat9-garnome.txt

Bob

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Bob Kashani