Subject: Re: Instructions for Compiling 1.4.99
From: jeff b (jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 07:59:32 EDT
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, rgp systems wrote:
> > on 10/1/00 4:32 PM, rgp systems at rgp@systame.com wrote:
> > > I downloaded and untarred the archive, but was unable to figure out
> > > how to compile. The READMEs say to edit the root-level Makefile, but
> > > I couldn't find one (though there were a bunch of Makefile.am). They
> > > also said there was a config file in the INSTALL dir, but I couldn't
> > > find an INSTALL dir.
-- SNIP --
> > I also tried to create an RPM by running the buildrpm script in
> > distrib/rpm.
> > It failed with the following error. What must I do?
> >
> > cp: overwrite `/usr/src/redhat/SPECS'? cp: overwrite
> > `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES'? tar: netatalk+asun: Cannot stat: No such
> > file or directory
> > tar (grandchild): /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/netatalk+asun.tar.gz: Cannot
> > open: Not a directory
> > tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > File is not a regular file:
> > /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/netatalk-asun-cobalt.spec
To compile an RPM, grab the SRPM (.src.rpm) from sourceforge, then run
rpm --rebuild netatalk-(version)-(build).src.rpm and it will build from
that source RPM. The spec files in the distribution are ancient.
jeff
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