Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:29:01 +0200 Rudi Ahlers Rudi@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.