How to build a rpm file from the source file?
 

I have some project that written with C ++, i want make a rpm file for every one that using Mandrake linux can download and install it easyly. But i don't know how to make it!
Can u help me? Thanks!

If you google for the terms 'mandrake rpm howto'
you will find this link:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo

If you know how to use emacs, do this:

emacs yourpackage.spec

It will create a new file, and automatically put most of what you need in a spec file in there, to help you start.

Fill it out as best you can, then try building it:

rpmbuild -ba yourpackage.spec

Make sure your package files are in your rpmbuild directory, or else your build won't see the files.

-Corey

On top of building an RPM, can you also list HOW you compile from source? For some reason, the whole ./configure make make install thing works 0 out of 20 times that I've tried. I hate how us Mandrake users are totally locked down and depend on RPM's to install software.

The last time I used mandrake was a while ago ( last year ), but I don't recall having any problems with make installs.

What sort of errors do you get?

-Corey

Sorry! I don't understand! I've never met an error with these command since i 've intalled all libbraries that included in Mandrake 10.0 Official and some other libs that software requied!