Subject: Re: Newbie rpm question
From: Greg Richardson (pressman57@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 02:40:19 MST
Thanks guys....you don't know how long I searched for
just those simple instructions
--- "nathan r. hruby" <nhruby@arches.uga.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Greg Richardson wrote:
>
> > Can someone point me to a "how to" dealing with
> > compiling source code to work on a power pc?
> >
>
> No different than compiling for x86, just so long as
> there aren't any ppc
> specfic thing need doing (like endian issues)
>
> To recompile an rpm from a src.rpm just su to root
> and issue
> "rpm --rebuild somepackage-1.0.src.rpm" then build
> will happen and will
> stop if there are problems. If there aren't any,
> you'll find compiled
> rpms in /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/PPC/ that can be
> installed.
>
> there's other stuff you can do with rpm, I guess
> we'd need to know what
> exactly you're trying to compile first.
>
> -n
> --
> ......
> nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu
> computer support specialist
> department of drama and theatre
> http://www.drama.uga.edu/
> ......
>
>
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