Re: Configure options used to create RPMs

[David McGlone <dmcglone edificationweb com>]

On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:29 pm, tbrownridge comcast net wrote:
> Does anyone know how to figure out the ./configure options that were used
> to produce a binary rpm? For example, I installed apache on my RedHat 7.3
> system, and now I'd like to add some modules. I'm going to recompile
> Apache, and I'd like to use the same ./configure options (plus a few of my
> own) that whoever made the rpm used. It seems to me this is a reasonable
> thing to do because I'd like it to compile as httpd and look in all the
> right places for files.

Do you think getting the source from either an SRPM or .tar file and modifying 
it the way you want and then creating an RPM from your modified version would 
be easier?

David M.