./configure question
peter kostov
fedora at light-bg.com
Mon Feb 27 15:04:26 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 17:21 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> peter kostov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have noticed that if I have installed say two packages - A.tgz
> > (source) and B.rpm, and now I want to install C.rpm (depending on both A
> > and B), the installer doesn't find the (installed) dependency A.
> >
> > So I think that configure by default uses different paths than rpm and
> > I should pass some parameters, like
> > ./configure --prefix=?
> >
> > What is the exact parameter that I have to pass to configure to make
> > both installations from source and from rpm compatible, or is the
> > problem elsewhere?
> >
> > I use FC3, RPM version 4.3.2
> >
>
> My understanding is that rpm will look at the rpm database for
> dependecies, so 'rpm -ivh C' will not find A no matter where you
> install it.
>
> Two choices:
> 1. (Quicker, but causes problems later) Tell rpm to ignore the
> dependecies and install anyway.
> 2. Build A as an rpm (difficulty varies, some packages provide
> a 'make rpm' target) then install using 'rpm -ivh A'. I
> don't have any links on this, but there are quite a few howtos,
> you'll have as much luck with google as I will. ISTR fresrpms
> has one.
>
> Bonus choice:
> 3. Find a repository containing A and install from there via yum.
>
Thanks, Ian!
Peter
> --
> imalone
>
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