[ATrpms-users] Problems building dovecot-1.0.0-8_56.src.rpm on RHEL3

[Scott A. Hughes]

Hello again.

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:30:55PM +0900, Scott A. Hughes wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:22:10PM +0900, Scott A. Hughes wrote:
>> >> Taking the build options on the following URI as a guideline I have
>> successfully
>> >> built Dovecot 1.0.0 on RHEL4 using the dovecot-1.0.0-8_56.src.rpm source rpm.
>
>> >> However, the build fails when done on a RHEL3 system.
>> >>
>> >> + libtoolize -f
>> >> libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' is serial 46, less than 48 in
>> >> `aclocal.m4'
>
>> > this is a side-effect at people yelling at ATrpms for replacing
>> > packages from the system:
>>
>> The pros and cons have no doubt been discussed here before, so I will refrain from
>> commenting in detail, but will say that personally, I have no problem with such
>> replacements. I appreciate your pro-active approach. (After all, it would be this
>> thinking that gives impetus to your work on the RPMs in the first place). I too
>> adopt this approach with my server environments and those of my clients.
>>
>> > I'm using newer autotools than what RHEL3
>>
>> Ah, that explains it.
>>
>> > ships comparable to what RHEL5 ships. With autotools its always a good
>> > idea to use the latest even for older platforms.
>>
>> Yes, I agree.
>>
>> > Still people didn't like these packages being superseeded and
>> > therefore they are currently not published. I can place them somewhere
>> > for you do download, perhaps under people.atrpms.net? I don't want to
>> > make them globally visible again, because people will start moaning
>> > about too many packages being replaced.
>>
>> That would be very much appreciated. Thank you Axel.
>>
>> I will send you a follow-up email off-list re' a download location.
>
> I've put them on http://people.atrpms.net/~athimm/autotools-rhel3/
> This is public, but not globally visible, e.g. doesn't automatically
> install if you use ATrpms.
>
> (I've put all packages I use, you probably only need a couple)

Thank you. I am sure other people will also find them useful.

Can you please also upload the source RPMs?

Scott.

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