Thread: Problems building 7.2.1 RPMs
Hi all:
I'm having problems building binary RPMs for PostgresSQL 7.2.1 from
source. First of all, the circunstances:
-I am using Red Hat Linux 6.2.
-I have updated the required system libraries, utilities, etc. needed
to compile 7.2.1 (patch and readline).
-I am using the SRPM that I found in Red Hat Rawhide
(ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/SRPMS/SRPMS/postgresql-7.2.1-3.src.rpm).
-I edited the postgresql.spec file to take out the references to
gettext and set nls=0, since I couldn't find an up-to-date binary RPM of
gettext for Red Hat 6.2 (some posts in this mailing list mentioned that
they couldn't get gettext to compile under 6.2 anyway, and suggested
this approach).
-To compile everything, I used the following command: " rpm -ba
--target=i586 --define 'tcl 0' --define 'tkpkg 0' --define 'python 0'
--define 'pltcl 0' --define 'kerberos 0' --define 'pgaccess 0' --define
'newintarray 1' /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/postgresql.spec".
And now, the problem: after compiling everything, when trying to
generate the RPMS it says: "File not found:
/var/tmp/postgresql-7.2.1-root/usr/lib/libpgtcl.a".
I have TCL installed (but not Tk), and with the above configuration
(updated readline and patch, removed gettext, etc.) I was able to create
binary RPMs of Postgres 7.2 using the official SRPM.
What can I do? Any ideas? If you need more information, don't hesitate
to ask.
Paulo Jan.
DDnet.
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 09:40 am, Paulo Jan wrote: > I'm having problems building binary RPMs for PostgresSQL 7.2.1 from > source. First of all, the circunstances: > -I am using Red Hat Linux 6.2. > -I have updated the required system libraries, utilities, etc. needed > to compile 7.2.1 (patch and readline). > -I am using the SRPM that I found in Red Hat Rawhide > (ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/SRPMS/SRPMS/postgresql-7.2.1-3.src.rpm Ok, realize that rawhide RPM's are built on, well, a decidedly non-6.2 box. 7.2 or better, more likely. > And now, the problem: after compiling everything, when trying to > generate the RPMS it says: "File not found: > /var/tmp/postgresql-7.2.1-root/usr/lib/libpgtcl.a". > I have TCL installed (but not Tk), and with the above configuration > (updated readline and patch, removed gettext, etc.) I was able to create > binary RPMs of Postgres 7.2 using the official SRPM. Diff the older 7.2 spec against the rawhide spec and see what changed (quite a bit changed, BTW). Installing tk might help, though -- but, if you haven't X installed, then, well, that's a whole 'nother issue. > What can I do? Any ideas? If you need more information, don't hesitate > to ask. Ok, do this for me (and e-mail the result directly to me, and not to the list): rpm-command-from-above 2>&1 >build.log & tail -f build.log (so you can watch it). Then e-mail me build.log. Oh, and I'm working on more backwards-compatible 7.2.1 RPMs -- I've been on vacation (to recover from working during another vacation that I took to recover from the hardest 4 months I've had at work). But it's time for me to get back into this saddle. Sorry for the delay. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
>
> > And now, the problem: after compiling everything, when trying to
> > generate the RPMS it says: "File not found:
> > /var/tmp/postgresql-7.2.1-root/usr/lib/libpgtcl.a".
>
> > I have TCL installed (but not Tk), and with the above configuration
> > (updated readline and patch, removed gettext, etc.) I was able to create
> > binary RPMs of Postgres 7.2 using the official SRPM.
>
> Diff the older 7.2 spec against the rawhide spec and see what changed (quite a
> bit changed, BTW). Installing tk might help, though -- but, if you haven't X
> installed, then, well, that's a whole 'nother issue.
>
Okay, this is what I did, and here is what I found:
> * Thu Mar 21 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 7.2-6
> - Move the libpgtcl.so symlink into the tcl subpackage from -devel (#61042)
I tried again, building postgresql-tcl too... and it worked. Tadaaa!!
(I don't know if it's necessary, but I can still send you the build log
if you want it).
Paulo Jan.
DDnet.
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 07:14 am, Paulo Jan wrote: > > > generate the RPMS it says: "File not found: > > > /var/tmp/postgresql-7.2.1-root/usr/lib/libpgtcl.a". [snip] > I tried again, building postgresql-tcl too... and it worked. Tadaaa!! > (I don't know if it's necessary, but I can still send you the build log > if you want it). Ah. Postgresql-devel requires libpgtcl.a. Aha. Please send me the log. Now I have to decide how to handle this cross-rpm dependency problem, while still allowing conditional builds.... For the group: His build didn't build libpgtcl.a (the static link development library for the tcl client), and the rpm build barfed when it couldn't find that file to put in the _postgresql-devel_ subpackage. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes: > On Wednesday 10 April 2002 07:14 am, Paulo Jan wrote: > > > > generate the RPMS it says: "File not found: > > > > /var/tmp/postgresql-7.2.1-root/usr/lib/libpgtcl.a". > [snip] > > I tried again, building postgresql-tcl too... and it worked. Tadaaa!! > > (I don't know if it's necessary, but I can still send you the build log > > if you want it). > > Ah. Postgresql-devel requires libpgtcl.a. Aha. Please send me the log. > > Now I have to decide how to handle this cross-rpm dependency problem, while > still allowing conditional builds.... > > For the group: > His build didn't build libpgtcl.a (the static link development library for the > tcl client), and the rpm build barfed when it couldn't find that file to put > in the _postgresql-devel_ subpackage. And the changelog entry he referred to was me fixing it a couple of weeks ago. Conditionals work in filelists too -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
Paulo Jan wrote: > Okay, this is what I did, and here is what I found: > > > * Thu Mar 21 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 7.2-6 > > - Move the libpgtcl.so symlink into the tcl subpackage from -devel (#61042) > > I tried again, building postgresql-tcl too... and it worked. Tadaaa!! > (I don't know if it's necessary, but I can still send you the build log > if you want it). > Does this mean that you managed to build 7.2.1 for RedHat 6.2? --lec
lec wrote:
>
> Paulo Jan wrote:
>
> > Okay, this is what I did, and here is what I found:
> >
> > > * Thu Mar 21 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 7.2-6
> > > - Move the libpgtcl.so symlink into the tcl subpackage from -devel (#61042)
> >
> > I tried again, building postgresql-tcl too... and it worked. Tadaaa!!
> > (I don't know if it's necessary, but I can still send you the build log
> > if you want it).
> >
>
> Does this mean that you managed to build 7.2.1 for RedHat 6.2?
>
> --lec
Yep, though I didn't build all the packages, only the ones that I
needed.
Paulo Jan.
DDnet.