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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Peter J. Braam wrote: > Although we do this kind of stuff all the time here, I was wondering if > you might be right. On a vanilla glibc machine I can unpack the tarball > and type ./configure and make coda in the sources and it builds to > completion. > > If you pay attention to the rpm build script, you will notice that we > build outside the sources etc to avoid any dependencies on existing > headers apart those that we instruct the C compiler to use. Peter, I must eat a large helping of crow. I could swear that I had tried 'make coda' numerous times, only to trip over missing headers. Naturally, after your message, I tried again and it worked. Grrr. I'll go away now and put my other foot in my mouth. Mea culpa. Apologies for the false alarm <sigh>. SteveReceived on 1998-07-06 22:10:52