more rpm problems...

[Andrew Bartlett]

Craig Longman wrote:
> 
> i know this isn't probably the best place, but i'm getting
> very desparate to get at least one server up and running with
> openssh-2.3 here.  i have an old redhat-5.2 machine that i
> was trying to recompile the 2.3 src rpm on, and after fighting
> for hours to get the various -devel rpms that it required, i
> have a problem now where the openssh rpm isn't using the older
> gnome include directories, which seem to have been in
> /opt/gnome/include in the 1.0.xx days.
> 
> is there any way to:
>  a) tell the rpm --rebuild to not build the gnome stuff
>  b) pass extra include directories to the rpm --rebuild process
>  c) anything else that can magically get this to work???!!!
> 
> any help would be very, very much appreciated at this point...
> 

I usually work with the RedHat RPMS, and just modify the spec file to
set the variables provided to skip all the X stuff.  To get the spec
just install the srpm (rpm -U openssh*.src.rpm and edit the spec file in
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS.  To rebuild run rpm -ba on the modified spec
file.  

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