[ale] Secrets to coimpiling on RH7.2

[James P. Kinney III]

It really depends on the failure message. Most common failure on a
pristine RH box, missing *-devel package for compiling.

Sometimes, it works OK to just run rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm. If EVERY
devel package is already installed !!

There have been times where the compile failure is due to a code bug.
This is a management issue with RedHat. They have released the incorrect
src.rpm. They released the development version instead of the working,
patched version.

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 07:50, Chris Fowler wrote:
> If I download a source RPM from RedHat's site I would assume I would be able to compile it.  I download a RH7.2 source rpm and the compile fails.  Why bother than?
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