Jarod Wilson (et al) wrote: [much useful stuff]
Thanks for the feedback. I now have a system sort of running with libraries installed from a locally built RPM. It's at least running well enough that the app developer in question can probably make progress debugging his stuff, but there's still plenty that I wish I had a better handle on. For example: the RPM delivered by RHAT is named glibc-2.3.2-95.50.i686.rpm ...but when I rebuild from (what I assume to be) this corresponding SRPM: glibc-2.3.2-95.50.src.rpm ...these are all that end up in the output hierarchy: src/rpm/RPMS/ src/rpm/RPMS/athlon/ src/rpm/RPMS/i386/ src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-common-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-debug-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-debuginfo-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-debuginfo-common-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-profile-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/glibc-utils-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i386/nscd-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm src/rpm/RPMS/i486/ src/rpm/RPMS/i586/ src/rpm/RPMS/i686/ src/rpm/RPMS/noarch/ ...so I suspect that may have something to do with the differences that I mentioned between the libs I'm building versus what's in the RHAT-built RPM. Can somebody tell me how to persuade rpmbuild to generate anything named *.i686.rpm from that SRPM? FYI, the "arch" command on the box where I'm building says "i686" and uname -a says: Linux hooha 2.4.21-47.EL-smp #6 SMP Mon Nov 13 16:14:24 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ...and I haven't identified anything in my spec files that has the desired effect. I've been trying to RTFM in places like these: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/RPM-HOWTO.html ...which are pretty good docs, but no joy, so far. It's those *.i386.rpm packages I built that I've installed on the target machine - they mostly work but there are some strange problems with unresolved symbols that I'll probably gripe about in another msg. (and I'll also describe a cool dynamic-linker debugging trick) _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
