Building rpms on AMD64

Per Steinar Iversen PerSteinar.Iversen at adm.hio.no
Thu Jan 13 15:12:23 UTC 2005


A silly question: How does one build or rebuild src rpms under x86_64?

On a freshly installed FC3 nearly everything fails to build as configure 
looks at the wrong X11 libraries. As an example, rebuilding mozilla:

$ rpmbuild --rebuild mozilla-1.7.5-3.src.rpm
...lines deleted...
checking GLIB_LIBS...   -lglib-2.0
configure: error:  Could not find the following X libraries:  -lX11 -lXext -lXt
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.13288 (%build)

Modifying the spec-file to add a line like this cures the problem:

--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64

But this is probably too crude - what is the proper incantation to make 
rpmbuild understand where the X11 libraries are placed on x86_64?

-psi




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