Wrote Steven W. Orr on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:02:24PM -0500:
> People people people. I don't have a quick answer to this man's problem,
> but I do want to point out this one particular inaccuracy.
Same again here..
> > Configure and make as you mentioned above are for compiling source code into
> > binary, and you can do that with RPM too. Normally however, RPM is used to
> > install ready-compiled binaries. Not the same thing.
>
> No! You can 'normally' do it this way. I 'normally' always download
> .src.rpm files and *then* build the binary rpms via
> rpm -i
> rpm -ba
>
> and only *then* do I
>
> rpm -Uvh
>
> I know that the Maximum RPM book is somewhat out of date, but it is still
> well worth the read. It's completely downloadable so you don't even have
> to pay for it.
But have you noticed that it is not RPM which is doing any of the
compiling of the source code? Ok so it runs configure and make for you
but that is about it. It doesn't do any checking on your system to find
dependies as the original poster was saying configure does.
And yes, source RPMs are extremely funky and I like them a lot..
Chuck
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