[CentOS] Requirements for building source RPM's?

[Mike Stankovic]

--- Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:

> I want to build an app (cdlabelgen and its frontend
> gtkcdlabel) from a source
> RPM, since the binary has a few encoding
> weirdnesses. I've never built a source
> RPM (using Slack before), now I wonder: what tools
> (packages) do I need for
> this, besides rpm-build, gcc, autoconf etc.?
> 
> Niki Kovacs

1. Search google for "how to rpmbuild". I can see
excellent documents on the subject.

2. Do the following command to install the development
tools.

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

See man yum for more info.

3. Install the fedora-rpmdevtools to build rpms as
non-root.

4. Enjoy!

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