Saturday, January 03, 2009

start-stop-daemon on CentOS/RHEL5 (and probably other RedHat derivatives)

Some packages depend on the start-stop-daemon command which is not available in CentOS (or the dag repositories, AFAIK) but the solution is to pull down the source for dpkg and compile it. Basically do a ./configure at the top level of the package and then do a make, make install the utils directory


[root@moodle_dev utils]# make
gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,-O1 -o start-stop-daemon start-stop-daemon.o ../get
opt/libopt.a
[root@moodle_dev utils]# ls
enoent enoent.o Makefile.am start-stop-daemon start-stop-daemon.o
enoent.c Makefile Makefile.in start-stop-daemon.c
[root@moodle_dev utils]# make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dpkg-1.13.26/utils'
test -z "/usr/local/lib/dpkg" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/lib/dpkg"
/usr/bin/install -c 'enoent' '/usr/local/lib/dpkg/enoent'
test -z "/usr/local/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/sbin"
/usr/bin/install -c 'start-stop-daemon' '/usr/local/sbin/start-stop-daemon'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dpkg-1.13.26/utils'

2 comments:

Andreas said...

I had to add --without-selinux in order for it to compile:

./configure --with-bz2 --with-zlib --without-selinux --prefix=/usr

Andreas said...

Also, make sure to install po4a before compiling:

yum install po4a