19.2.5. Tools for building RPM

In addition to the libraries listed in Table 20-2, RPM requires a number of GNU utilities for building RPM, including those listed in Table 20-3.

Table 20-3 Tools used to build RPM

Tool	Usage
Autoconf	Builds configure scripts
Automake	Used with autoconf
GNU make	Used to control building the sources
Libtool	Used by the autogen.sh script

In addition to all this, RPM works best with the GNU C compiler, GCC, and the GNU make program, gnumake, or simply gmake.

Cross Reference

The source code for all the GNU tools is available at www.gnu.org.