rpm build

[Michael Sweet]

Emily Wilson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I need the most up to date version of cups to use hplip, the version SuSE 10.0 ships with is not compatable.
> To that end I downloaded cups-1.2.7-source.tar.gz from http://www.cups.org/software.php
> 
> and as the page says:
> 
> "The source distributions include an RPM spec file that can be used to
> build RPM packages for your Linux distribution. The rpmbuild command
> is used to build from the tar files:
> 
> rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.gz"
> 
> So I ran:
> rpmbuild -ta cups-1.2.7-source.tar.gz
> 
> from the directory where I had downloaded the tar.gz file.
> 
> I only received a few errors:
> RPM build errors:
>    File not found by glob: /tmp/cups-root/etc/dbus-1/system.d/*
>    File not found: /tmp/cups-root/etc/pam.d
>    File not found by glob: /tmp/cups-root/etc/pam.d/*
>    File not found by glob: /tmp/cups-root/usr/lib*/php*
> 
> And now that I've done the rpm build, I frankly am not sure where to
> find the .rpm file (or even if my build was successful.)
> 
> Can you help?

OK, you don't apparently have PAM, DBUS, or PHP on your system, or
at least not the -devel packages.  Try doing this first:

     yast install pam-devel dbus-devel php-devel

(I'm not sure about the package names above, or even the usage of
Yast - I'm not a regular SuSE user...)

If that doesn't clear things up, use the following command to build
your RPMs:

     rpmbuild -ta cups-1.2.7-source.tar.gz --without dbus --without php

Currently there is no RPM build option to not use PAM, but SuSE
definitely does use PAM...

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