I have a user who wants a version of Perl built with -Duse64bitint that is accessable as perl64. I've pulled down the src.rpm and I'm going through the perl.spec file looking to see what all needs to be changed. So, before I really screw up my system, I thought I would ask if anyone here has any particular advice. Help?
-- Matt
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:53 -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote:
I have a user who wants a version of Perl built with -Duse64bitint that is accessable as perl64. I've pulled down the src.rpm and I'm going through the perl.spec file looking to see what all needs to be changed. So, before I really screw up my system, I thought I would ask if anyone here has any particular advice. Help?
As long as you build it as a binary package rpm will prevent you from causing problems. It won't tell you how to rename the binary from perl to perl64 though.
On 12/5/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez@ivazquez.net wrote:
As long as you build it as a binary package rpm will prevent you from causing problems. It won't tell you how to rename the binary from perl to perl64 though.
Well, yeah, that is the plan. I've been going through the .spec file in an attempt to make the appropriate changes. Unfortunately, RPM has evolved significantly since the publication of "Maximum RPM". Does anyone have any good pointers to detailed documentation on the new features and syntax?
-- Matt
Matt Lawrence wrote:
On 12/5/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez@ivazquez.net wrote:
As long as you build it as a binary package rpm will prevent you from causing problems. It won't tell you how to rename the binary from perl to perl64 though.
Well, yeah, that is the plan. I've been going through the .spec file in an attempt to make the appropriate changes. Unfortunately, RPM has evolved significantly since the publication of "Maximum RPM". Does anyone have any good pointers to detailed documentation on the new features and syntax?
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ and http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/
lots of info there, apart from that try the rpm-devel and rpm mailing lists.
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