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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/23/2015 08:53 AM, Fred Smith
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I note that there is also a .spec file available and thought I'd try
to build a binary RPM for it too.
But I'm pretty ignorant of how to do that, so I've googled for how to
build an RPM binary from source and found a number of hits.</pre>
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<font face="FreeSerif">Make a directory ~/rpmbuild; within that make
directories </font>BUILD, BUILDROOT, RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS<small>,</small>
SRPMS; within RPMS, make further directories i686, noarch, x86_64.
Put xiphos.spec in SPECS. Put xiphos-x.y.z.tar.gz in SOURCES.
Mutter "rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/xiphos.spec". Wait a minute,
then look in RPMS subdirs for packages.<br>
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