On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi Oded,
Hi :-)
> Most of those SRPMS files comes with a spec file which I imagince sits on
> /usr/src/mandrake/SPECS directory
that's /usr/src/RPM/SPECS (like RH should have done it, if not for them
being so egotistic ;-)
> Inside, most of the time you'll find a part which runs the "configure" script
> - so you can change this part to use your libs from other directory or
> specific files..
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> Hope that helps...
Actually, not really.. :-(
I know how to tell configure about the locations of different stuff, but I
have no idea how to tell it which version to compile against..
Oded
> On Friday 06 April 2001 04:06, Oded Arbel wrote:
> > Hi list!
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> > me again,with RPM problems.
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> > I'm updating some packages on my system, so I'm downloading SRPMs,
> > compiling them and installing the resulting binaries.
> > Now, I have two versions of libsafe on the system (Mandrake 7.2) - 1.3
> > which is used by all the old application (tried to remove it once, not a
> > pretty sight ;), and version 2.0 from the 8.0 release, which I thought I
> > could make all the new packages compile against.
> > but -
> > when I try to install a package I've just rebuilt from SRPM (rpm --rebuild
> > somepackage.rpm), I get a "failed dependencies: libsafe.so.1.3 is needed"
> > every time.
> > this means two bad things are happening :
> > 1. the new libraries compile against the old libsafe.
> > 2. they don't know I have both version installed, and think I don't have
> > libsafe.so.1.3 (which I do).
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> > then I need to do --nodeps to get over it.
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> > I installed libsafe 2.0 with -i, so it wont uninstall the old libsafe. I
> > also created links from libsafe.so to libsafe.so.2.0 and ran ldconfig.
> > now how do I make the SRPMs compile against the new libsafe ?
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