gcc issue

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Thu Feb 5 15:16:49 UTC 2009


Steve wrote:
> I went to rpmfind (http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/9/x86_64/dhclient-4.0.0-22.fc9.x86_64.html) to get the dhcp src rpm and downloaded it. It comes from ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/SRPMS.newkey/dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> When I ran rpm -qp on the downloaded rpm I get this:
> 
> $ rpm -qp dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9.src.rpm
> dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9.ppc
> 
> ppc?!!? Is this the correct rpm?
> 
> I installed the rpm anyway
> # rpm -iv dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9.src.rpm
> 
> which created, amongst other things /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/dhcp-4.0.0.tar.gz
> I unpacked:
> # gunzip -cd dhcp-4.0.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> which created a /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/dhcp-4.0.0 directory. I cd'd to the directory and ran
> # ./configure
> which ran with no errors
> # grep -R GNU_SOURCE *
> #

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

Specifically:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch08s02.html

Regards,
Bryn.




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