Re: Updates on RedHat 7.1/mips

["H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:13:20AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:16:05PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > > Could you add a Perl rpm to you distribution, this also seems to be needed to
> > > build the RPMs natively.
> >
> > Perl has to be built natively. I uploaded mysql-3.23.36-1.1.src.rpm,
> > perl-5.6.0-12.1.src.rpm, apache-1.3.19-5.src.rpm,
> > mod_perl-1.24_01-2.src.rpm, tcsh-6.10-5.src.rpm and
> > zsh-3.0.8-8.src.rpm. Just installed my RedHat 7.1. Then you can build
> > perl yourself. You may need to build/install the tcsh rpm first.
> 
> It look like there is a cross dependence, the build of tcsh failed with the
> following message:
> 
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7250: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7250 (%build)
> 
> So tcsh is needed to build perl and perl is needed to build tcsh :-(
> 

It is ok since the tcsh binary has been built. Just install it to
/bin/tcsh and build the perl rpm. You may have to

# rpm --nodeps --force --rebuild perl-xxx.src.rpm

You only have to do those the first time.



H.J.