Re: Gnumeric in RHEL4?

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:

> On 4/3/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Jos Vos wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:58:17PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > >
> > >> Release Notes say gnumeric was added to RHEL4, but I can't find a PPC RPM
> > >> or an SRPM.  What stupid thing am I missing?
> > >
> > > I think that release notes are wrong: gnumeric has never been in
> > > (or added to) RHEL4, AFAIK.
> >
> > OK Does anyone know of a build that will work with RHEL4 (on PPC)?  I
> > tried various Fedora ones (gnumeric-1.2.13-6.src.rpm,
> > gnumeric-1.6.2-1.fc5.src.rpm, gnumeric-1.2.8-2.src.rpm) but all builds
> > terminate with complaints about incompatible libraries.
> 
> I dont think anyone will compile out of the box. I remember having to
> do this around RHEL-4U0 for a customer and it took a lot of
> 'alternative' libraries to get it to work.

If you have more information, I'd be willing to look at adding gnumeric 
to my RHEL4 repository. Can't help with PPC though, I'm still looking for 
someone to help out with PPC builds of RPMforge.

Kind regards,
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