On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Mike Mascari wrote:
> Okay. I've downloaded the SRPMs of the rawhide readline. My first
> attempt to build the RPMS via rpm -ba failed because I don't have
> autoconf > 2.50. I'll download that SRPM, attempt to upgrade autoconf,
> then attempt to upgrade readline. I'm very thankful for the RedHat 6.2
> RPMS, BTW. But I'm starting to wander into dependency hell... :-)
Mike,
I use 'rpm --rebuild ...' except when the source is extracted and I need
to modify the SPEC file before it builds. In the latter case, I cd to the
/usr/src/redhat/SPEC directory and run 'rpm -ba ...' from there.
Rich
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