Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:02:09 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:
This method uses configure > make > checkinstall (instead of make install).
Checkinstall has been dropped from openSUSE because it doesn't work anymore. Checkinstall's trick is to load a library via LD_PRELOAD that redirects all functions dealing with files. Now for installing a package you need to be root and for programs running with root privileges the dynamic loader ignores LD_PRELOAD as this would otherwise be a huge security problem.
So checkinstall has become useless and was therefore dropped.
Philipp
Oops, I didn't know that. I guess its been a while since I've needed to build an RPM. So how does one go about making a home rolled RPM for opensuse these days?? Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org