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