Tom,
I've been following this thread and others like it and I can't help but
wonder with BIG curiousity. How does one go about "rebuilding" an rpm.src
package? And is there already info on this contained on my system?
Mark
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:10 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > Dear Tom and friends:
> > I tried to rebuild the Cooker versions of Mozilla but still got the same
> > error messages because of the rpm issue.
> >
> > By the way, my AMD K6-2 400 is really a i586, not an i686. There was a
>
> Never a problem here Ben (P3-450@600). Out of curiousity, I d/l'd
> the cooker mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk src rpm yesterday and rebuilt it on my 7.2,
> rpm-3.0.5-27mdk version, glibc-2.1.3-18.5mdk, 2.4.3 kernel system.
> This src rpm builds:
> mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm,
> mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm,
> mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm
> I installed (rpm -Uvh) only mozilla and mozilla-devel, no problems.
> 'Help, about Mozilla' shows:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-5tom i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010408
>
> This is a very long compile, twice as long as a kernel, over an hour
> on my box. In compiles like this (or any for that matter), if you get
> errors, you should try again a few times. If you're getting errors in
> different places, it's most likely that your hardware is not up to the task.
>
