MHR wrote: > I'm trying to build GNOME (to run a more recent version than 2.16.* on > CentOS 5.1) and I keep running into a lot of rather strange problems. > > I'm wondering if this might have something to do with my hybrid 64 and > 32 bit general environment, so I want to try a pure 64-bit chroot. > > I've never done this before, and I'm not entirely sure how to, and I > didn't see anything particularly on point, either at centos.org or > google. If I missed it, just say where and that should be enough. > > Guidelines? Suggestions (other than "go away" or other physically > difficult crudities :-)? > Probably the best thing to do is to use mock to build in. You provide it with some repos and it automatically creates a chroot to build things. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock That has some instructions, though you should be able to yum install mock. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080529/b4b64779/attachment-0005.sig>