Very Computer

> I need to reinstall pine with some of the optional compile time options
> that are documented in the washington.edu installation guide. I would like
> to use an RPM rather than a tarball but I don't know how (or even if it's
> possible) to pass compile time options to an rpm. It could be that RPM's
> are precompiled, I really know very little about them. However, if they
> aren't precompiled then it should be possible to pass options to the
> makefiles. Can anyone comment on this for me?

> Thanks in advance.

>you can with source rpms. I'm not sure what options you need to pass,
>you may need to modify some files but in a nutshell it goes something
>like rpm --rebuild program.1.0.src.rpm

>>you can with source rpms. I'm not sure what options you need to pass,
>>you may need to modify some files but in a nutshell it goes something
>>like rpm --rebuild program.1.0.src.rpm

> No,no.

> $su
> #rpm -iv $YOUR.src.rpm
> #cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
> edit $YOUR.spec (eg. WindowMaker.spec)
> Look for configure/make statements near top. Add what you need, and
> delete anything you *know* you don't need. Example:

> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/WindowMaker.spec:

> ===========================================
> %define _sysconfdir /etc/X11
> %define optflags -g
> # patch5 needs autoconf to run
> autoconf
> %configure --enable-newstyle --enable-superfluous \
>     --enable-gnome --with-appspath=/usr/lib/GNUstep/Apps

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> make
> cp -f asclock/asclock.man asclock/wmclock.man
> make Makefile -C asclock
> make -C asclock
> ==========================================end example.

> <save&exit>
> #rpm -bb $YOUR.spec  <builds new binary from new spec file>
> #rpm -Uvv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/$YOUR*rpm  <install it now>

> If you want 686 or other CPU optimizations, that is another day.

>thanks for setting me straight on that :) like I said I just started
>looking into this stuff yesterday. My whole intent was just to let him
>know that it looked like he could do what he needed with rpm's

>btw I figured out the i686 already... that looks pretty easy

>rpm --rebuild --target=i686 package-name.src.rpm

>heh... somehow I'm thinking there's more to it than that though. I am
>confident however that someone will enlighten me soon enough :)

> Well, er, yes.

> buildarchtranslate: i686: i686
> optflags: i686 -O3 -mpentiumpro -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-  functions=2   -march=pentiumpro  -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -s

> optflags: i386 -O3 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce

> =============

> If you didn't do anything else,  --target=i686 just gives the rpm an 686
> name without optimizations (unless the distros are doing this now). So
> you have to define this in /etc/rpmrc (and there is a newer place for
> this but I forget the name!). Those are compiler flags above. Not a
> definitive list by any means, but the ones I use.