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

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> 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

[root@hyde] /usr/src/redhat/SPECS> rpm --bb gcc32.spec
error: failed build dependencies:
        gcc-gnat >= 3.1 is needed by gcc-3.2-7
[root@hyde] /usr/src/redhat/SPECS>

I'm going to crack this nut. I'll give the rpm to anyone who wants
(trusts) it for rh7.2.

> 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.

Of course if we were running debian, we would have it installed all ready
via apt. It would have taken me less than 5 minutes of work to get this
installed on all 10 or my client boxes. :)

Fred Ollinger
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