Gamin should do the same thing. It is the FAM replacement. There seems to be some native file alteration software in the (Mandriva) kernels nowadays. Dovecot uses that. When I was running Courier, I had FAM/Gamin installed with rpm.
Greetings, Egbert Jan (NL) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tim Dimond > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [courier-users] Newbie problems creating RPMs from tarball. > > > Hello all, > > I hope this is the right place for me to ask for help with > building the RPMs from courier-0.53.3.tar.bz2 on CentOS 4.4. > I'm relatively new to Linux so please forgive me if this > problem is really simple to solve - in fact, I hope it is. > > The problem I'm having is that, whenever I try to build the > RPMs using the command 'rpmbuild -ta courier-0.53.3.tar.bz2', > I get the following error: > 'error: Failed build dependencies: /usr/include/fam.h is > needed by courier-0.53.3-1.i386'. > > I have installed FAM on the system, but instead of creating a > fam.h file in /usr/include/ it was created in > /usr/local/include/ and the Courier rpmbuild process doesn't > seem to like that. Thinking an update might solve the > problem (I told you I'm a newbie) I ran yum update. When I > did that FAM was removed and replaced by gamin 0.1.1 release > 4.EL4 - which is described by 'yum info gamin' as a 'Library > providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API'. > > Is it OK to build and install the Courier RPMs without FAM on > the system by using the --nodeps option in rpmbuild, or will > doing that make the installation of Courier fail? If I need > FAM on the system to use Courier can someone give me some > indication as to how I can get this to install in the correct > place (/usr/include/) or should gamin do the same job? > > Many thanks for your help. > > Take care, > Tim. > > > > > > > -- > This outgoing e-mail is certified Virus free by a managed > installation of AVG 7 anti-virus. Virus definition files on > the originating computer are updated every 15 minutes. Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.433 / Virus Database: 268.15.18/585 - Release > Date: 13/12/2006 11:49 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the > chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through > brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge &CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
