Johnny,
First thank you for all of your patience with me.
I am going with the rpms you built (already downloaded them) on my new trixbox build, but I am going to, again, try the build myself on my 'old' AAH 2.8 system. I tried it yesterday and did a lot wrong, I see. You show me what I need to do to run the build as non-root. I ended up going forward as root, as I could not figure out the directory permissions. Also I need the g++ compiler it seemed.
Anyway, I need to do this at least once and this guildline should help me do it right finally. Then I can put it into my freemind linux 'database'. (and I would like to see a newer, enhanced ver of freemind soon too!).
At 08:21 AM 6/7/2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:49 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
In my seeking a managable way to build libtiff, on the Asterfax forum I got the following recommendation (from another fax user that made the move to libtiff 3.8.2):
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Hi Robert,
I have compiled libtiff-3.8.2 from the source package for my Fedora Core 4 machine. I am not sure about CentOS, but I think you can try to do the same with rpmbuild and the source package for Fedora:
- Install the rpmbuild tools in CentOS;
- Download the source package for Fedora:
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/atrpms/src/fc6- i386/redhat/SRPMS.updates/libtiff-3.8.2-2.src.rpm
- Install the source package as a non-root user:
rpm -ivh libtiff-3.8.2-2.src.rpm
- Go to your rpmbuild folder: cd ~/rpmbuild
- Rebuild the package: rpmbuild -ba SPECS/libtiff.spec
If everything goes well, you will find a brand new set of RPM packages in the ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ (replace i386 for your actual architecture if you're not building on i386), which you can install with the upgrade RPM command: rpm -Uvh libtiff-3.8.2*.rpm
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Does this 'look right' for Centos? If not what do I change?
And how do I get the rpmbuild tools? yum install rpmbuild ??
Finally, once I have built 3.8.2, how would I migrate it to other systems?
Not totally ... I will example with a non-root user called "builder"
as root: yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
useradd builder
passwd builder
(give builder a password)
su - builder
as builder:
Edit a file called .rpmmacros as builder from builder's home directory and add the line:
%_topdir /home/builder/rpmbuild
then do:
mkdir ~/rpmbuild
Then start from above with: Download the source package for Fedora
(you would do everything else ... however you might need to install several xxxxx-devel packages on your system to meet the build or install requirements and get a good build or install.
I have built this just now on CentOS-4 and it seems to build and install. You are welcome to use it:
http://centos.hughesjr.com/testing/libtiff-3.8.2-2/
I don't plan to maintain these on updates, unless you ask me to rebuild them.
You should be able to install them on any machines as the root user (from a directory containing the the RPMS):
yum localinstall libtiff-3.8.2-2.i386.rpm
or
yum localinstall libtiff-3.8.2-2.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-2.i386.rpm
(if you need the devel package)
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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