FC4, FC6, F7 what works, and don't

[Karl Larsen]

Eric Wood wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> ......when I tried to ./configure it would not find fftw. I had to get
>> the tar ball....
>>     
> Whoa, stop right there.  If you're missing something at least do an
> attempt to finding a srpm of the package you need. Google for "fftw
> srpm".  I came up with
> http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/fftw3/info.html
>
> I'd try grabbing the
> http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc6/i386/SRPMS.dries/fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> package install it and build your one rpm like so:
>
> # wget
> http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc6/i386/SRPMS.dries/fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> # rpm -Uvh fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> # rpmbuild -bb fftw3
> # cd ../RPMS  (if the build goes correcting (writing rpm....))
> # rpm -Uvh ffw3* --test  (hopefully this thing build the -devel rpm
> simultaneously too).
>
> FC6 source rpms should be very close to FC7 standards so there should be
> to many other dependancies to settle.  Yum can take care of most of
> those though....
>
> -eric wood
>
>   
Hi Eric, we found we can just yum fftw as long as I remeber to yum the 
fftw-devel as well.

Karl