On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:36 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: >>> I'm trying to install gtk+-2.13.3 in order to install GFTP (a >>> graphical SSH tool). >> >> Just for an exercise? Unless you want to do that, you don't have to >> compile it. > > Yes. Something like that. I want to be able to compile the thing in some > other system. I thought my F8 box would give me a stable test ground. > >>GFTP (a graphical *FTP* tool, as the name says, with some >> other protocols, too), already exists as a precompiled package, and can >> simply be yum installed. > > I did installed the package yum provides. It works fine. I use port 22 > with SSH2. > > So -is there anyone who has played with this GFTP source before? > > ~af > I believe you are not getting some configure options correct, and you also may have the thing confused about which version of glib you are using because you have 2 installed, afaict. Anyway.... Here's how you find out how it can be compiled. Get the SRPM, install that. That will show you a SPEC file, and you can read that to see the configure options that are used. Another thing you can try is a test re-build of the SRPM. That will tell you if your build system is broken/incompatible. Maybe another reader can point you at an easier way to do this, but here's how I do it in a clean account "pauljohn". Create a file .rpmmacros and it has this in there $ cat .rpmmacros %_topdir /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat And then create the subdirectories where the SRPM will drop things: $ mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/SPECS $ mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/SOURCES $ mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/SRPMS $ mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/RPMS/i386 $ mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD I think that is enough. Maybe you want i686 under RPMS as well. then you install the SRPM file $ rpm -ivh gftp-whatever-src.rpm That will put a spec file under the SPECS directory, go read that over. If you want to try to build it without changing it, just do (after cd to the SPEC directory) $ rpmbuild -ba gftp.spec If it finishes, you will get RPMS created in RPMS/i386 and a new SRPM will be created in SPRMS. If you use the -bb option, it won't create a new SRPM. You'll need the rpm devel packages to do this. I'm on an Ubuntu system now and can't check, but I believe yumex will make it easy to find the package that has "rpmbuild" in it. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
