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[Scott Silva]

Julian Field spake the following on 5/10/2007 12:39 PM:
> 
> 
> Damon Lambooy wrote:
>> I am tring to install Mailscanner  4.59.4-2 on Fedora 7 test 4 but 
>> getting strange error about rpms not being installed.
> 
>> [root at mailex MailScanner-4.59.4-2]# ./install.sh
> 
> 
>> Good. You have the patch command.
> 
>> Good, you have /usr/src/redhat in place.
> 
>> Good, unpackaged files will not break the build process.
>> Good, far-too-clever Perl requirements will be ignored.
> 
>> Good, you appear to only have 1 copy of Perl installed.
> 
>> I think you are running on RedHat Linux, Mandriva Linux or SuSE Linux.
>> You must have the following RPM packages installed before
>> you try and do anything else:
>>        binutils glibc-devel egcs make
>> You are missing at least 1 of these.
>> Please install them all
> Do you have gcc installed?
> Fedora has probably just hit a problem caused by my being short-sighted 
> in the install.sh script.
> 
>   if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] && fgrep -q ' 6.' /etc/redhat-release ; then
>       # RedHat used egcs in RedHat 6 and not gcc
>       GCC=egcs
>   fi
> 
> So if it finds "6." in the redhat-release file then it won't look for 
> gcc, it will look for egcs. What exactly does your /etc/redhat-release 
> file say? If you can give me that I can work on the install.sh script 
> and produce a new version for you that will work. I can probably just 
> abandon the RedHat 6 test altogether now. Anyone still running it 
> deserves all they get :-)
> Just delete those 4 lines.
> 
> 
> Jules
> 
People should stop using RedHat 6. It has got to be almost 8 years old!

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