Re: Compiling GNU software / making rpms

2005-08-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:55 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > With openSuSE I expect some tutorial for making rpms to come up in due > course. I will be making a very strong push for it. Hell you may even be writing it! I had my first experience of compiling via rpm a fre years back on redhat, a ki

Compiling GNU software / making rpms

2005-08-18 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> There are two "dependency" issues here: > > 1. getting the appropriate toolchain needed to compile the (or any > normally packaged c or c++) program (gcc, make, binutils etc etc); and > > 2. the dependencies required by the particular package you want to > compile. > > I guess suse doesn't eve