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[Damon Lambooy]

Damon Lambooy wrote:
> 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.
In  /etc/redhat-release file says " Fedora release 6.93 (Rawhide)"  and 
yes commenting out those lines worked for me.
Thanks again.
Damon
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