How to make RPMs of the wxWindows sources ========================================= This is just a short description. It is assumed that you know what you are doing. I do not take any responsibility for damaged systems, use at your own risk! 1. Extract the archive in a temporary directory. Since you are reading this text, you already have done this. 2. Copy the .spec file to (rpm-dir)/SPECS 3. Copy the .tgz file to (rpm-dir)/SOURCES 4. Start the RPM manager with rpm -bb (rpm-dir)/SPECS/(.spec-file) or with rpm -ba (rpm-dir)/SPECS/(.spec-file) (the latter also builds the .src.rpm-file) 5. You now have a nice set of RPMs in (rpm-dir)/RPMS Example ======= Here's how to install e.g. wxMotif 2.1.14: cp wxMotif.spec /usr/src/packages/SPECS cp wxMotif-2.1.14.tgz /usr/src/packages/SOURCES rpm -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/wxMotif.spec Install the resulting packages with rpm --install /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/wxMotif-2.1.14-0.i386.rpm rpm --install /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/wxMotif-devel-2.1.14-0.i386.rpm rpm --install /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/wxMotif-gl-2.1.14-0.i386.rpm That's all. You should now have a working wxWindows library. Regards, Robert Fendt