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[Damon Lambooy]

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
Yip, Thanks Jules. That did it.
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