Hello again,

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, I am not too familiar with 
building RPMs, even less with customizing them.

I just want to copy the files on one machine to another machine with 
the same directory hierarchy.

Would it be easier if I just installed gcc?

Many thanks.

Philippe


On 19 Jan 2005, at 11:11, David L Norris wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 01:07 -0800, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:
>> is is possible to build swish-e on one machine and to copy the
>> executable, shared libs, etc. to another machine running RedHad 9?
>
> Yes, you can build a RPM on a development machine then install it on
> production systems.  This is the preferred way to install software on
> "production" Red Hat systems.  But you need root access to use RPM on
> the target host.  Also, the RPM spec file works in SWISH-E 2.4.2 but 
> has
> a problem in 2.4.3.
>
> Without root access on the target host, you should be able to build
> SWISH-E with an alternate prefix  (./configure --prefix=/path/to/prefix
> && make && make install) and then copy the entire prefix directory to
> the destination machine.  You may need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> environment variable to run the swish-e executable.  (i.e.
> "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/prefix/lib swish-e")
>
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