[CentOS] Building a 64bit rpm
Ned Slider
nedslider at f2s.com
Tue Apr 8 18:04:23 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:29:01 +0200
>> Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I build mine as root ( a normal user account gave me some erorrs), and
>> > all seems well?
>>
>> Use yum to install rpmdevtools. Then rpmdev-setuptree will do all of the work
>> that's required to build rpms as a user.
>
> I suppose rpmdevtools is only available from EPEL. But the following
> procedures will do the job:
>
> cd
> mkdir -p rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
> echo "%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild" > .rpmmacros
>
> Then as root, yum install rpm-build
>
Johnny wrote a nice article here about building SRPMs:
http://www.linuxhelp.net/forums/How_to_Build_Enterprise_Srpms_t3384.html
Never had any problems since following Johnny's advice :)
You can modify Johnny's scripts to build for different targets (i386,
i686, x86_64 etc). For a build target of x86_64, you may want to specify
-m64.
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