RE: [PLUG] "Friends don't let friends use Dell"

["Christian Hedemark" <chedemark@cc3.com>]

Gregson asks:
> Question for the list:  how much work (hours) would it likely 
> be for a competent person to take the source and make an rpm for it?

If you can satisfy the dependencies, it's as simple as installing the
SRPM for gcc and running:

	rpm -bb --target i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/gcc.spec

That command line is a little different with RH 8.0 (rpmbuild instead of
rpm IIRC).

When it is done, the packages will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686

I am waiting right now for a couple of sun boxen to catch up with me, so
I tried doing this on a RH 7.3 box.  I installed the SRPM from RH 8.0
(gcc-3.2-7.src.rpm) and it started dependency hell on me (binutils,
dejagnu, glibc-devel, gcc-gnat, lib-gnat).  So it will probably take
quite a bit of time to put together a binary RPM.

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