Re: [Libreoffice] new download - checking for rpm

On 01/12/10 21:45, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:13:36PM +0000, Wols Lists wrote:
> > Have we lost a patch somewhere? Just trashed my old development
> > directory by mistake :-) so I'm trying to follow the new download and
> > build instructions. ./autogen.sh bombs as follows ...
> >
> > checking whether to enable EPM for packing... yes
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is the point.
>
> The "old" system had --disable-epm in the standard flags. We don't need it
> because we run make_installer.pl on our own anyway.
So all I need to do is specify --disable-epm. Okay.

> > checking for epm... no
> > EPM will be built.
> > checking which package format to use... rpm
> > checking for rpm... configure: error: not found
> And because you didn't specify an other format, and don't use a Debian-based
> system it defaults to rpm...

OW! So what's the best way to fix that?

Otherwise that's gentoo broken, probably slackware, and I dunno what
else ...

> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
Cheers,
Wol