On 07/18/2010 10:38 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sunday 18 July 2010 09:48 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >>> On 07/18/2010 09:44 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 07/18/2010 08:23 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am looking for the gsl sources. There are not in gsl neither in >>>>>> gsl-devel. >>>>>> Is the only option to install gsl-1.14.tar.gz ? >>>>> yumdownloader --source gsl >>>>> >>>> Thank of course, but it does not install the source like I >>>> would have expected, cf like gsl-devel should do it ! or another >>>> package. >>>> >>> You misunderstand how it works. gst-devel does not contain source >>> files. -devel files only include the development files necessary to >>> build against it. Not the full source. The srpms contain the full >>> source along with the spec file used to produce gst and gst-devel. >>> >> Humm, but I still cannot find the source file for gsl_matrix_alloc ! >> or grep gsl_matrix_set_zero ! >> >> Where are they, because there are bit in the tgz file. >> I am missing something. >> > What Rahul mentioned before downloads the source rpm. You have to > install it after you have downloaded the rpm. You can install it like > this, (as a regular user) > > $ rpm -ivh /path/to/gsl.src.rpm > > Then you will find the entire source tree tarball in your home in a > directory tree like this, > > $HOME/rpmbuild/ > |-- BUILD > |-- BUILDROOT > |-- RPMS > |-- SOURCES #<-- source tarball is here > |-- SPECS #<-- rpm .spec file is here > `-- SRPMS > > Hope this helps > >> Regards. >> Yes - note that the source tarball itself usually needs to be patched. So you would cd to SPECS dir and run rpmbuild -v -bb <pkgname>.spec (run man rpmbuild) this will produce the -devel version as well. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines