Hi, Gregory: On 10/11/06, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 08 October 2006 12:39 Leo Li wrote: > Hi, all > Current harmony build script on linux requires liblcms.a libpng.aand > several .h files such as png.h but not installed on my redhat linux > platform. Although as the script prompts out, ubuntu can download such > files seperately, while other platform such as my redhat or suse, rpm might > be the only source to get new softwares from internet which leads to a lot > of troubles. For examples, the dependency between those rpms and the > default installation destinations of these rpms are not the places Harmony > script expects. > So, I think, it will be good if the build script can download these > required files automatically when they are absent. Show me a single Linux distribution which doesn't provide development files for any library (except for 3rd party binaries) it includes. Providing them from harmony is really not necessary. It is a matter of system configuration by an individual developer and if it is too hard to find necessary packages in redhat there are more developer oriented (although redhat includes all necessary packages, I assure you) distributions (no Gentoo advertising from me here). FOR LEO ^^^^^^^ Using rpmfind or rpmsearch (call it rpm hell like dll hell in windows) is really a wrong way, there sites often includes unofficial packages, it requires you to carefully chose your distribution version, etc. The version which you've installed should have registered package sources (be it CD or http/ftp) from the official mirror. Search in it for libpng1-devel (or whatever form redhat has for this package) to install it. Also uninstall all the zoo you've found on the net before you do it, otherwise you'll get installation conflicts for sure.
But I cannot find the rpm for liblcms.a and icc34.h in the CD. There is no liblcms*.rpm or lcms*.rpm. And what do you mean official mirror, the redhat site? Although I admit rpmfind is not a good way, but it really works after I installed all the necessary packages and put the required files to the appropriate position. At least Harmony should gives some hints, for example, which rpm is required and where to get them. Since not every body is an expert of rpm, and aware of the relationship between the required files and rpms, as well as their versions, as you said, "the rpm hell". --
Gregory Shimansky, Intel Middleware Products Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Leo Li China Software Development Lab, IBM
