On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:59 -0700, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > thanks folks but i do not have a leg to stand on here i am coming from freebsd where make install clean is about all i guy needs to install software. > > I downloaded what i think you are talking about the src rmp > > bacula-1.38.5 > > have know idea how to rebuild rpms and do not even seem to have rpmbuild on my system. > > tried a good old configure but got this > [root@shoemasters bacula-1.38.5]# ls > ABOUT-NLS configure kernstodo nb-1.37 projects scripts > autoconf COPYING kes-1.38 patches README src > ChangeLog examples LICENSE platforms README.AIX updatedb > CheckList INSTALL Makefile.in po ReleaseNotes VERIFYING > [root@shoemasters bacula-1.38.5]# ./configure > checking for true... /bin/true > checking for false... /bin/false > configuring for bacula 1.38.5 (18 January 2006) > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed > checking for g++... no > checking for c++... no > checking for gpp... no > checking for aCC... no > checking for CC... no > checking for cxx... no > checking for cc++... no > checking for cl... no > checking for FCC... no > checking for KCC... no > checking for RCC... no > checking for xlC_r... no > checking for xlC... no > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no > checking whether g++ accepts -g... no > checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for egrep... grep -E > checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no > checking for g++... g++ > configure: error: Unable to find C++ compiler To install C++ compiler: # yum install gcc-c++ To install rpmbuild: # yum install rpm-build To set up your environment to build RPM packages as a regular user: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/CreateRPMBuildEnvironment (note that the above instructions assume you have the Fedora Extras repository enabled - see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras for configuring it on FC3) To build the package: $ rpmbuild --rebuild \ --define 'fc3 1' \ --define 'build_mysql 1' \ --define 'build_mysql4 1' \ bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm (replace bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm with the full filename of whatever src.rpm you downloaded). If you get messages about some packages being needed, use yum to install those packages as for gcc-c++ and rpm-build above, then retry the rpmbuild command. P.S. Please don't top-post on this mailing list. Paul.