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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060607/b2b54913/attachment-0005.sig>