-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 April 2003 03:01 pm, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 22 Apr 2003 19:02, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > You're making life difficult on yourself. Just download the freetype > > SRPM, install it with rpm -i, and turn on the bytecode interpreter > > with a simple change to the spec file. (I'm pretty sure it's the > > very first thing in the spec file, something like %define > > without_bytecode_interpreter). Then just rebuild from the spec file > > (rpmbuild -bb freetype.spec) . No need to bother with the freetype > > source tarball, which as you point out does things somewhat > > differently than the Red Hat SRPM. > > I have just tried this and get: > > [root@xxxx SPECS]# rpmbuild --nobuild -bb freetype.spec [...] > RPM build errors: > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.3-root/usr/bin/ftmemchk > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.3-root/usr/bin/ftmulti > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.3-root/usr/bin/ftstring > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.3-root/usr/bin/fttimer > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.3-root/usr/bin/ftview If that's the command you used, I wouldn't expect the build to complete successfully. From the rpmbuild manpage: - --nobuild Do not execute any build stages. Useful for testing out spec files. I'd suggest 'rpmbuild -bb freetype.spec' I'd also suggest setting up a non-root build environment, and building packages as a normal user. Details on setting that up are here: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+qusHn/07WoAb/SsRAipGAKCTlOZ06xC/UAC2Q/xcAKzsXjAjTQCfVVu8 JrbVJHPw6mUfvQqNvUWMRtc= =7lwM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----