Re: [UUG/MLUG] compiler

[Jeremiah Johnson <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

unh.. I don't think so.  creating an RPM requires something called a .spec
file, and this is not automatically created by anything, if memory serves.
There are tools, I believe that make this easy, and thusly make creating
.rpm's easy, but I don't know what they are.

-Jeremiah Johnson

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Michael wrote:

>Is there a way to automaticlly havde an rpm made when I compile something
>that doesn't come as an rpm?
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>On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 06:59:44 -0700 (PDT), Jeremiah Johnson wrote:
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>> yep, that's what it means.  I think they're trying to stray away from
>> letting desktop users meddle in compiling stuff.  I suppose this would
>> depend on the installation method you chose.
>> 
>> to remedy this situation:
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>> rpm -ivh gcc*
>> rpm -ivh *devel*
>> 
>> -Jeremiah Johnson
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>> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, root wrote:
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>> >Here's a question for ya.  I just upgraded from Redhat 6 to 6.1 and have
>> >tried compiling several programs because, unfortunately, I couldn't find
>> >them anywhere in RPM format.  I'm not getting very far.  Whenever I do
>> >the first step in compiling a program, "./configure", it tells me the
>> >following:
>> >
>> >loading cache ./config.cache
>> >checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>> >checking for gcc... no
>> >checking for cc... no
>> >configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>> >
>> >Does this mean I have no compiler installed?  That seem's pretty stupid
>> >that Redhat didn't install one automatically.  I guess they're just
>> >trying to shift everyone from compiling programs to using RPM's.  Which
>> >would be darn nice, except not everything comes in RPM format.  The
>> >program I'm trying to install is a set of tools and a loadable module
>> >for mounting an NTFS filesystem.  So if anyone knows another way to go
>> >about this that would be great, too.  Thanks in advance, everyone!
>> >
>> >Nathan Miller
>> >EMAIL:PROTECTED
>> >
>> 
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