Hi Paul,

Thanks for the mail. I could get the rpm from the location mentioned by you.

That was of great help.

Regards,
Chitra

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Paul Howarth <paul_at_city-fan.org> wrote:

> On 29/06/10 10:02, Chitra Nanda wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was trying to generate the rpm for the latest curl library from the
>> source rpm for curl for RHEL 5.3, 64 bit machine. There are so many
>> dependent packages and it was failing for each of the dependent
>> packages. I tried out some trail and error commenting out certain
>> things, but I was not successful in generating the binary package
>> successfully.
>>
>> I could see that there are the following dependencies
>>
>> I have tried using the commands mentioned below
>>
>> *#rpm -ivh curl-7.21.0-1.src.rpm *
>> *#rpmbuild --bb -vv /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/curl.spec *
>>
>> checking for libssh2_channel_open_ex in -lssh2... no
>> checking libssh2.h usability... no
>> checking libssh2.h presence... no
>> checking for libssh2.h... no
>> configure: error: libSSH2 libs and/or directories were not found where
>> specified!
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36377 (%build)
>>
>>
>> RPM build errors:
>> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36377 (%build)
>> D: May free Score board((nil))
>>
>> Since again libssh2.rpm doesn't come as part of the OS, I tried to build
>> the rpm for the same. That again has the following dependencies
>>
>> #*rpmbuild --bb -vv /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/libssh2.spec*
>> error: Failed build dependencies:
>> OpenPKG is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
>> openpkg >= 20100101 is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
>> cmake is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
>> gcc::with_cxx = yes is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
>> D: May free Score board((nil))
>>
>> #*rpmbuild --bb -vv /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openpkg.spec*
>>
>> In the spec file of this one also I had to comment out certain things,
>> but still it doesn't work.
>>
>> I am not sure if I can just try with --nodeps switch. I am not sure if
>> it is a safe way of generating the rpm without the dependencies.
>>
>> If someone has faced similar problems and have found any solutions for
>> the same, please let me know about the same.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time.
>>
>
> I have Rawhide curl packages backported for every Fedora release and RHEL
> 3-6 here:
>
> http://mirror.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/Mirroring/
>
> You can get the library dependencies here:
>
> http://mirror.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/libraries/
>
> Paul.
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