Re: kexpress

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

> From: "Bud Beckman" <n7su@micron.net>
> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:16:39 -0600
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> >On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Bud wrote:
> >
> >> I can't get it to go, must need rh 6. I don't have the necessary
> libraries and
> >> tried the tar.gz and no go there either. Of course, if I knew what I
> was doing
> >
> >General notes on compiling things:
> >
> >You need to install qt-devel, and all the other -devel packages on the
> CD
> >if you want anything to compile.
> >
> >To compile, the easiest way is to get the src.rpm , and install it:
> >
> >rpm -i foo.src.rpm
> >cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> >rpm -bb kexpress.spec
> >
> >( wait for it to build )
> >
> >then your RPM will be sitting in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
> >
> >cheers,
> >--
> >Donovan
> >
> Thanks, I knew that I had to have some libraries for it to compile, I
> have been waiting for my brain to catch up with the stuff I read. Trouble
> is, too much to remember. I'll need to get a book about compiling so I
> know what is going on, just to sit and look stupid while the errors
> scroll by is not much fun. And, I have been waiting for that CD to be
> finalized.
> 

One of the beautis of rpm -b{a,b} is that you don't need to know about
compiling.  Of course this is valid for installing things, if you want
to develop you need a book about make (either O'Reilly's or the one of
GNU) and another about GCC (you can print the texinfo doc through TeX
but it will be more expensive than a book).

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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