Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
>Am Samstag, 19.07.03 um 23:42 Uhr schrieb Ted Wright:
>>My only suggestion is to include the "Requires" and
>>"Provides" portions of the .spec file:
>>
>>    BuildRequires: XFree86-devel compat-gcc
>>    Requires: XFree86-libs glibc
>>    Provides: %{name} = %{version}
>
>We wouldn't need compat-gcc with the gcc3 patch, right?

Yes, that's correct.

>But some dependencies definetly are in order. Suppose I'd like to build one src RPM for all distributions. Are you sure the packages are called like this in every distro?

I'm sure they are not like this in every distribution. It's often necessary to tweak the
.spec files for RPMS for different releases of Red Hat, so I think it would be very hard 
to make an SRPM that works everywhere.

>>...so I won't be able to check out your binary on RH9 until then. However, I did try
>>to rebuild the source RPM on RH9, and it had a problem. Everything looked like
>>it was compiling normally until near the end of the build process:
>>
>># rpmbuild --rebuild Squeak-vm-3.4-1bert.src.rpm
>>... ...
>>Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
>>getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe

I did some checking on Red Hat 9. Your binary RPM works OK, but your
source RPM does not build due to this "broken pipe" problem (which seems
to be intermittent - it happened every time but once in the dozen or so 
attempts I made). 

I tried several workarounds for the "broken pipe" problem that all resulted in
a new binary RPM that built without errors, but the resulting Squeak VM would
crash after a few seconds with the same symptoms a VM built without the
gcc 3.2 patch (even though the patch was applied).

The only way I have found to make RPMS that both build and run properly with
Red Hat 9 is to install gcc 2.96 (the compat-gcc package) for compiling the
Squeak VM. 

Ted