[CentOS] Fedora source packages on Centos -- libtiff again

[Robert Moskowitz]

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):
> >
> > ================================================================
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ================================================================
> >
> >  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
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>CentOS mailing list
>CentOS at centos.org
>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos