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  From: John Jiannis <yannij@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : Linuxsa <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:13:33 +0930

FW: ftape-4_02-1_src.rpm

Hi
Thanks for help. I still get this message.

Executing: %build
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd rpm-2.93
+ CFLAGS=-O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you
must
 specify one
Bad exit status

When I run rpm -bb .........
I have looked on the faqs for an answer but no luck.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Andrew E. Mileski [mailto:andrewm@netwinder.org]
Sent:	Thursday, 15 April 1999 13:05
To:	johnj@abraxas.com.au
Subject:	Re: ftape-4_02-1_src.rpm

Let me try again (with more details):

$ su root
Password:
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
# ftp ftp.rpm.org
ftp> cd /pub/rpm/test
ftp> get rpm-2.93.tar.gz
ftp> quit
# cd ../SPECS
# tar xzvf ../SOURCES/rpm-2.93.tar.gz '*/rpm.spec'
# rpm -bb rpm-2.93/rpm.spec
# cd ..
# rpm -U RPMS/*/rpm-*
# rpm --rebuilddb
# rm -rf BUILD/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* RPMS/*/*
# exit
$

That should do it (I hope).  You may have to rebuild ftape too.
That's easier once you've update rpm:
  # rpm --rebuild ftape-4_02-1_src.rpm
  # rpm -U /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/*/*

--
Andrew E. Mileski - Software Engineer
Hardware Canada Computing

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