On 02/26/2010 10:26 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 02/26/2010 10:10 AM, John Foley wrote: >> Tiger users - I hope this isn't too stupid a question, but I need >> some advice from your experiences.... >> >> I'd really like to switch our group of users to TigerVNC server >> from TurboVNC server (for reasons I won't bore you with). I have an >> older version of Tiger running here now, but it suffers from the >> "no key repeating" problem, so I need to move to a version that's >> new enough to incorporate the fix for this. >> >> The problem is that these newer versions are all being built on >> fedora 11 and higher, which uses a GLIBC of 2.7 - but my RHELv5.2 >> machines that I must use have a GLIBC of 2.5, so simply downloading >> the rpms that "atkac" builds won't work for me :( >> >> I can see and download the source for these newer builds, so I could >> try to build the TigerVNC server on one of my RHELv5.2 machines - >> but I'll admit that I'm stumped on exactly how to accomplish >> this... >> >> So, my questions are : >> >> 1) anybody out there successfully built a "recent" version of TigerVNC >> server on RHELv5.2 ? Willing to share ? :) >> >> 2) the downloaded/extracted source files appear to have an rpm .spec >> file in them - so is the build as "simple" as just running rpm >> using that .spec file ? Can anyone offer any suggestions and/or >> advice on doing the VNCserver build that might help me out ? >> >> Thanks for any thoughts / suggestions -- > > > Take a look at using mock. You can build packages for other fedora/EPEL > versions than the host system. It creates a chroot sysimage that it > builds the package in. So you basically install it on whatever fedora > based system you have and run > > mock -r fedora-5-i386-epel rebuild tigervnc-....src.rpm > > and if it can get all its build dependencies it will succeed.
Just tried and it fails to find all its dependencies... its looking for xorg-x11-server-source which isn't in RHEL... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
