find libraries

[Net Llama!]

On 10/29/2004 05:07 PM, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:32:57 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>>
>>>All
>>>
>>>  I have moved my desktop machine from genttoo, unable to get things just to
>>>  run
>>>propely, to Suse 9.0. I am trying to build some programs, Eterm and scite and
>>>others, b ut ./configure is not finding some of the required libs, yes I went
>>>and got them, built them and most go in /usr/lib, some are in /usr/local/lib.
>>>the ld.so.conf has these directories in them and the ldconfg -v | grep lbast*
>>>finds the lib in /usr/local/lib. What eles do i need to done to get other
>>>programs to see my new libs. I am trying to build all code insttead of rpm.
>>>On getting xfce4 I have the tarballs but is their an easy way to build the
>>>many tarballs?
>>
>>Yea, its called SRPMs.  Unless you're running Slackware, it doesn't make
>>sense to start building tarballs without a package management system.
>>
> Lonnie
> 
>   Yes, I remenber doing that, the SRPM's do build the code at
> i686 level, right? I am relearning since I have not done rpm or srpm after
> leaving Caldera 3.1.  reintroducing at man page.

Compiling an SRPM builds the code for whatever arch you designate either 
in the command itself or the rpmrc file.  On the command itself you'd do 
something like:
rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 foo.src.rpm

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