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Re: Building miscellaneous packages for SL
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:07:57 -0800
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On Nov 12, 2007 5:50 PM, Fernando Avila Castro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > What do you think?  How far back in time do I have to go to find a
> > version of Gnumeric that can be compiled under SL5?
> >
>
>         Usually the best bet is to compile a src.rpm from FC 6.
>
>         RHEL 5 (and of course SL), took FC6 code and used it for the new
> enterprise version.

Yes, rebuilding from .fc6.src.rpm is the best way.  In many cases, just running:

rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile --define 'dist .sl5' --target `uname
-m` <sourcefile>

may work.  In the case of gnumeric, I needed to get several packages
from fc6 because of dependencies.  One of them was indeed goffice.

Akemi

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