rpm problems

[Richard Brunner <richard brunner vol at>]

Hi!

I want to make rpm-packages from the newest tarballs on my SuSE 6.0 box.
After the download I wanted to start compiling and making rpm-packages
with "rpm -ta package.tar.gz".

freetype 1.1, audiofile 0.1.6 and esound 0.2.8 worked fine but
"gsl-0.3b.tar.gz" said:
Name field must be present in package: (main package)
Release ...
Summary ...
Group ...
Copyright ...

OK, therefore I installed that package with "make install".

The next problem was glib-1.2.1.tar.gz, the configure script and
compiling worked but suddenly it stopped with the following lines:
File not found: /var/tpm/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/lib/libglib-1.1.so.*
File not found: /var/tpm/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/lib/libgthread-1.1.so.*
File not found: /var/tpm/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.1.so.*
Executing: %doc
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ cd glib-1.2.1
+ DOCDIR=/var/tmp/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/doc/glib
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/doc/glib
+ /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/doc/glib
+ cp -pr AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog
NEWS README /var/tmp/glib-1.2.1-root/usr/docglib
+ exit 0
Prereqs: /sbin/ldconfig

Processing files:glib devel
Finding privides...
Finding requires...
Requires: /bin/sh    # It is there !!!

The next problem was that If I want to make the rpm-packages for
gtk-engines-0.5.tar.gz it said: "File gtk-engines-0.4.tar.gz: No such
file ..."# why 0.4 ???


The last thing is that, after I made the rpm-package for mc-4.5.29
(which worked), I wanted to install it but it said that pam >= 0.59
isn't installed (but what is pam, I've never heard about that!?) and
/sbin/chkconfig.

thank you

richard