Re: XYZ has been released

[Vincent Harvey <vharvey mcs net>]

Look at the earlier post in the thread that I made. A spec that does work (for me at least).

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:20:00 Dean Elhard wrote:
> St0rM wrote:
> > 
> > >Use "rpm -tb sometarball.tar.gz" on the tarball to compile a binary rpm for yourself. Best yet about
> > >doing it this way is that you may get compiler optimizations
> > 
> > Great =)
> > It was what i'm searching =)
> > 
> > Thanks a lot =)
> 
> OK. What do I need to do to build the gnome-libs-1.0.3 tarball.  I have
> been screwing around with this for days and am getting rather
> frustrated.
> 
> The gnome-1.0.1 rpms that have been made available were all apparently
> compiled with egcs and glibc-2.1, so you need glibc 2.1 to use them. It
> also seems to mean that you need to install egcs if you want to compile
> any future versions of things which are only released as tarballs, since
> the egcs dependency gets propagated into the library config headers,
> such
> as glibconfig.h.
> 
> So I decided to try falling back and punting and rebuilding all of the
> rpms from the source tarballs, using my installed compiler and
> libraries,
> which has opened a new can of worms.  A number of the tarballs seem to
> have obsolete or erroneous .spec files. (eg. freetype failed to install
> two header files which are required by freetype.h, several of them have
> a
> release of SNAP, several have old version numbers), but I managed to
> work
> my way through all of the 'Required library sources' packages, and then
> tried to compile gnome-libs-1.0.3.  After updating the version in the
> .spec file, it compiles everything and then doesn't build the rpm.
> 
> If you are going to release the rpms, it would be nice if they could be
> used on a box-stock RH5.2 system, or, if they are going to require egcs
> and glibc-2.1, that this be stated as a requirement.
> 
> So should I bail on trying to build rpms from the tarballs, reinstall
> the
> egcs-compiled RPMS, and upgrade to egcs and libc-2.1, or can someone
> tell
> me what I need to do to the .spec file to make this sucker build.
> 
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