[Kolab-devel] Build failure of Kolab 2.1.0 RC2 on Fedora 6

[Joon Radley]

Hi Thomas,

> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Fedora_6 might give you all hints
> you need.

Thank you very much for the link, the use of compat-gcc worked for me.

Would it be possible to add the following to README.1st:
a) A link to the wiki so that new installers can see if they need to do
anything to get Kolab to compile on their distribution. The errors and
solutions is very hard to discern from the build log itself. Reading the
wiki before attempting the build and install Kolab could have save me a few
hours :)
b) Adding the command md5sum -c MD5SUM, before the first obmtool command. I
know it is obvious, but at 2am in the morning you just do not think to check
that. People new to Linux also do not know how to check the MD5 hashes.

Best Regards

Joon Radley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org [mailto:kolab-devel-
> bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Arendsen Hein
> Sent: 25 April 2007 04:00 PM
> To: kolab-devel at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: [Kolab-devel] Build failure of Kolab 2.1.0 RC2 on Fedora 6
> 
> * Joon Radley <joon at radleys.co.za> [20070425 15:47]:
> > Kolab 2.1.0 RC2 failed to build on Fedora 6. It fails when trying to
> compile
> > gcc after the initial openpkg bootstrap is installed. Attached is the
> entire
> > build log.
> 
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Fedora_6 might give you all hints
> you need.
> 
> > I also think that it would be much easier to find errors if the
> obmtool died
> > after an install failure. For a novice installer it can be very
> confusing to
> > look at the entire log file.
> 
> When we will upgrade the OpenPKG system (planned for server 2.1.1)
> there may be some improvements in this direction, or improvements
> made by us have a better chance of being accepted upstream, because
> the patches are not for an ancient OpenPKG release.
> 
> Thomas
> 
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