Re: [Slightly OT] Help building an srpm
Paulo Cavalcanti <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.atrpms.devel |
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM, John Robinson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks. Sorry for being slightly off-topic, since I'm asking about a > non-atrpms srpm, but you guys know lots about building stuff, especially > more recent stuff on older distros so please excuse me :-) > > I'm trying to build fuse-ext2 > http://dwrobel.fedorapeople.org/projects/rpmbuild/SRPMS/fuse-ext2-0.0.7-4.fc13.src.rpmon EL5 (CentOS 5.5, kernel 2.6.18-243 x86_64) and it bails out as follows: > > + autoreconf -si > configure.ac:83: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T > If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. > See the Autoconf documentation. > autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22723 (%build) > > I get the same building straight from the source. > > A little Googling suggests I need autoconf 2.60 or later and all I have is > 2.59. Anyone got a RPM (x86_64) I can safely use? Will I have to update > other build tools as well? Building the building tools is too much for me > :-) > > I tried also going to the older ext2fuse project, even though I don't like > its scary warnings about it toasting hard drives, but its build bails out > with something similar but different: > > imager.c:41: error: conflicting types for ‘ssize_t’ > /usr/include/unistd.h:191: error: previous declaration of ‘ssize_t’ was > here > > If you want to know why I want fuse-ext2 - I need to mount an ext2 > filesystem which has 16K blocks (because it was created on a ReadyNAS which > has a Sparc CPU with 16K pages), while my kernel's ext2 filesystem > apparently only supports blocks up to 4K. I haven't got the drive yet but > it's in the post and I'd like to be ready :-) > > I upgraded autoconf, automake and libtool in rhel5: http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-el5-x86_64/lcgrpms/autoconf-2.63-5.el5.noarch.rpm http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-el5-x86_64/lcgrpms/automake-1.11.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-el5-x86_64/lcgrpms/libtool-ltdl-2.2.6-18.el5.1.x86_64.rpm http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-el5-x86_64/lcgrpms/libtool-ltdl-devel-2.2.6-18.el5.1.x86_64.rpm http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-el5-x86_64/lcgrpms/libltdl3-1.5.22-7.el5.x86_64.rpm -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ