Tom wrote:
> Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hm. I'm a little unclear how that works, actually! I thought that
> > Rocky Linux got stuff from Fedora, and we're in Fedora? Maybe?
> > Shoot, I admit that I have NO idea! But I am sure that the people that
> > DO have an idea are on this list.
That's right, I'm a Fedora packager for nmh. It's in the repos
for Fedora itself. It was in RHEL 4 through 6. I just tried
building for EPEL7 but haven't had success. The error reporting
isn't helpful ("Command failed") so I'm giving up for now.
> But you can typically build any Fedora package
> on RHEL pretty easily, as long as you pick the Fedora version that
> your version of RHEL branched off from.
Or to build nmh 1.7.1 from the nmh repo:
1. install the prerequisite packages listed in
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/MACHINES
2. wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/plain/build_nmh
3. sh build_nmh -div -b 1.7-release
and respond to the prompts. Though I just tried that and hit a
minor test failure, looks like due to a change in bison.
"make install" will still work.
> One other thing to worry about is that RHEL might not even carry
> the prerequisites of the package you want. When rebuilding
> nmh-1.7.1-7 on RHEL8, I found I needed perl-NKF which is not in
> base RHEL8. Fortunately you can get it from the codeready repo.
I'm surprised that perl-NKF, or any perl package, is needed.
David
