Re: [Swarm-Support] swarmapps-objc-2.2 test version available

[Paul Johnson]

If you are serious about making an RPM, it is easy.

Get this package:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2X_Fdr3/swarm-2.2-1_fc3.src.rpm

If you have a "stock" system, and you install that, it will dump it into 
 /usr/src/redhat

and those directories are owned by root, and so you have trouble 
building things unless you are root.  If you want to do that, look in

/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/swarm-2.2.spec

In there, the only lines you should have to change will concern the 
version and  jdk edition. for version, replace my FC3 with SUSE92 or 
whatever.  I think in there I had jdk-1.5.0, but due to trouble with 
that, I'm planning to revert back to j2sdk-1.4.2_07.  So if that is what 
you use, I think it will be fine.

After editing that, you run this command

rpmbuild -ba swarm-2.2.spec

It will create the rpms as well as a new srpm.

Now, if you don't want to do this as root (and I don't think you 
should), you can build RPMS as an ordinary use if you either

1. change the permissions on all those directories under /usr/src/redhat 
so that users can read & write, or

2. put in a file  called .rpmmacros in your home directory that re-sets 
the value of that directory.  Here's my .rpmmacros

%_topdir  /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat

I had to manually create the directories

mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/SPECS
mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/SRPMS
mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD
mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/RPMS/i386
mkdir -p /home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/RPMS/i686

After that, when you run the rpmbuild program as a user, it will do all 
the work in the directory you specify.

Of course, you can specify any directory you want,you don't have to use 
LinuxDownloads/redhat .




Giovanni Maniscalco Basile wrote:
> Dear Paul,
>  as fopr SuSE 9.2 I did as follows:
>
> 1. I downloaded the last version of Swarm for fc3;
> 2. I installed first gperf (./configure complains if it doesn't find
> it!);
> 3. I downloaded the most recent RPM surces of BLT and HDF5 and installed
> them via rpmbuild --rebuild
> 4. after that 
> $tar xvfz swarm-2.2.tar.gz
> $./configure --with-jdkdir=<MyJdkdir>
> $make
> $make install
>  and everything works.
>
> If I knew how to do it I would be glad to build an RPM for SuSE 9.2
> Thanks for everything.

> > > >


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