A couple more points: Ben wrote: >> http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/patching_rpms.php > > That's pretty much the standard drill on how to build a package.
I understand that, but it wasn't originally my goal to build an RPM, just to recreate libc.so so we can try to reproduce a certain fault and then instrument it to catch it in the act. I'd thought (hoped) I'd end up with a build area full of extracted sources that I could just mess around in. Also, I forgot to mention something weird that nudged along my current path: when I just allowed rpmbuild to totally generate an RPM from the SRPM start to finish (using rpmbuild --rebuild blahblah.src.rpm) the outcome was much more as expected, with the resultant libs inside the RPM similar in size to those of the installed versions. So I'm hoping that whatever voodoo made that (appear to) work out will also work to my advantage with the current approach. It's as if different compiler options (or something) get used when you say "rpmbuild -bc ..." versus "--rebuild" though I suspect that's not actually what's happening here... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
