Hi all,

I was trying to generate the rpm for the latest curl library from the source
rpm for curl for RHEL 5.3, 64 bit machine. There are so many dependent
packages and it was failing for each of the dependent packages. I tried out
some trail and error commenting out certain things, but I was not successful
in generating the binary package successfully.

I could see that there are the following dependencies

I have tried using the commands mentioned below

*#rpm -ivh curl-7.21.0-1.src.rpm *
*#rpmbuild --bb -vv /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/curl.spec *

checking for libssh2_channel_open_ex in -lssh2... no
checking libssh2.h usability... no
checking libssh2.h presence... no
checking for libssh2.h... no
configure: error: libSSH2 libs and/or directories were not found where
specified!
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36377 (%build)

RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36377 (%build)
D: May free Score board((nil))

Since again libssh2.rpm doesn't come as part of the OS, I tried to build the
rpm for the same. That again has the following dependencies

#*rpmbuild --bb -vv /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/libssh2.spec*
error: Failed build dependencies:
        OpenPKG is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
        openpkg >= 20100101 is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
        cmake is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
        gcc::with_cxx = yes is needed by libssh2-1.2.6-20100610.x86_64
D: May free Score board((nil))

#*rpmbuild --bb -vv /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openpkg.spec*

In the spec file of this one also I had to comment out certain things, but
still it doesn't work.

I am not sure if I can just try with --nodeps switch. I am not sure if it is
a safe way of generating the rpm without the dependencies.

If someone has faced similar problems and have found any solutions for the
same, please let me know about the same.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards,
Chitra

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