<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Refer to </font><a href=http://kwave.sourceforge.net/doc/en/building_rpm_from_targz.html....CAN><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://kwave.sourceforge.net/doc/en/building_rpm_from_targz.html....CAN</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
YOU HELP ME?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There is something missing in this procedure:
I am not building kwave, but this is a prototype - I wish to build
rpms of a variety of tar.gz files that are needed to install gnumeric.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1. </font><font size=3>Go
to your RPM "topdir". This normally is </font><tt><font size=3>/usr/src/redhat</font></tt><font size=3>
for the redhat distribution or </font><tt><font size=3>/usr/src/packages</font></tt><font size=3>
if you have the SuSE distribution. </font>
<br><tt><font size=3>%</font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>cd
/usr/src/</b></font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>redhat</i></b></font></tt>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2. </font><font size=3>Put the
tar.gz archive into the SOURCES subdirectory (you have to replace "somewhere"
with the real directory where the files are, of course). </font>
<br><tt><font size=3>%</font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>cp
</b></font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>/somewhere/kwave-XXX.tar.gz</i></b></font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>SOURCES</b></font></tt><tt><font size=3><br>
</font></tt>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">3. </font><font size=3>Extract
the spec file from the archives and put it into the SPEC subdirectory.
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<br><tt><font size=3>%</font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>tar
-xOzf SOURCES/</b></font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>kwave-XXX.tar.gz</i></b></font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>\*.spec>SPECS/kwave.spec</b></font></tt><tt><font size=3><br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">4. </font><font size=3>Let
rpm do the compile job and generate the rpm of Kwave. If you only want
to make a binary package, you can specify </font><tt><font size=3>-bb</font></tt><font size=3>
instead of </font><tt><font size=3>-ba</font></tt><font size=3>, or just
</font><tt><font size=3>-bs</font></tt><font size=3> to build only a source
package. </font>
<br><tt><font size=3>%</font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>rpmbuild
-bb SPECS/kwave.spec</b></font></tt>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">5.</font><font size=3> If everything
was ok, you can install the binary rpm of Kwave, it will be in the BUILD
directory. If you already have a version of Kwave installed, please remove
it first or use the parameter </font><tt><font size=3>-U</font></tt><font size=3>
instead of </font><tt><font size=3>-i</font></tt><font size=3> for upgrading
instead of installing. </font>
<br><tt><font size=3>%</font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#0060a0><b>rpm
-ivh BUILD/</b></font></tt><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>[arch]/kwave-XXX.[arch].rpm</i></b></font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>The "arch" string should
be specified earlier I think</i></b></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>and the arch string does not exist
as a dir under BUILD. These </i></b></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>steps created /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/intltool-0.37.1-1.noarch.rpm</i></b></font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>What's Missing??</i></b></font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=3 color=#008250><b><i>Steve Linehan</i></b></font></tt>
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