Excellent. This gives a nice range of options. I tried mock - the first build failed so I tried a different src rpm and it worked. Installed fine. I now have gnome-commander on xfce4/centos7.
Many thanks. Lots to do now.....
Stan
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> On Dec 4, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Stan Cruise <stancruise@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> This question may not belong in the Centos.org list, but I do want to
>> compile against this distro. Please advise.
>>
>>
>> The question:
>>
>> Can I be pointed at methods to learn to compile source against a distro. I
>> have software development background (but too long ago to be specifically
>> useful; however I have the concepts). Typically I can find some fairly
>> decent step-by-steps for some apps, but it never works out. Which means I am
>> missing the basics.
>>
>> I have been working with Centos and Fedora through many VM and metal
>> installs, so that part is OK. I am getting tired of constantly trying to
>> find the app I want in the distro, or an applicable rpm. It's time to
>> compile.
>
> The best approach depends very much on the target application and how
> you intend to mange it. Most sources will have a generic configure
> script and makefile that will build and maybe install in /usr/local.
> For a quick test, that might be enough, but you have to note where
> things land and clean up after yourself.
>
> Note that 'most' things worth building have already been packaged as
> RPMs, so finding them is still going to be your easiest solution. If
> they are for a 'slightly' wrong disto, you can often grab the source
> rpm instead of the binary and 'rpmbuild --rebuild ...' to get locally
> configured binary rpms. The somewhat higher level approach to this
> is to install the 'mock' package from epel and then 'mock -r
> some_version --rebuild some_src.rpm'. This will download all of
> the required library support and build the binary rpm for some
> fedora/centos other than the running system. There are lots of
> variations, but these may get something working without a lot of
> specific programming knowledge.
>
> One other thing to know about would be 'software collections' that
> have updated versions of applications that can co-exist with the stock
> versions. This might come into play if you run across source that
> uses c++11 and you want to compile it on Centos 6 (thus needing a
> newer gcc, etc.).
>
>
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