I took a look a thte Fedora SRPM's, which unfortunately ended about 3 years ago with a very out of date release. The current release requires Python 2.7, which is begging for pain to install on an SL 6 system.
SL 7 should be much more compatible with current releases. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/14/2013 04:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> On 10/14/2013 04:18 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: >> >>> I now have built from source BlueGriffon for X86-64 SL6x, version >>> 1.7.2.99.20130729, Build 20131013142156, Codename 'Cla-de-Lue' >>> >>> I can provide detailed instructions or just a copy of both the mozconfig >>> file used for the build and the typescript of the building. >>> >>> I have had to add a few RPMs to SL6x from other distributions. There >>> was a query on a different thread (same general topic, but a different >>> subject line) as to why I used a 5x CentOS RPM for one of the >>> dependencies of the build. I could not find a 6x EL version. The >>> application was not a systems application that would overwrite/override >>> other files, and seemed to be constrained with a unique identifier. My >>> experience is that many EL 5 and even EL 4 applications still "work" >>> with EL 6, as did this. Presumably, if the EL 6 version is available, >>> that too would work. >>> >>> Yasha Karant >>> >>> >> Do you have a place to download the RPM? >> >> > I have the full directory as well as the built files -- but the source > code did not come with any obvious configuration/script software to build a > RPM. Moreover, I do not have the personnel resources to support this > application for future updates, although I expect that the steps that I did > will work for such updates. > > I have not built this for the IA-32 platform, only X86-64. Is anyone with > an IA-32 SL6x development system willing to repeat the exercise to produce > an IA-32 platform version? > > Can you supply the necessary information to build a RPM as well as > properly specify dependencies? > > Yasha Karant >
