## Instructions for building the official rpms. ## The process used to create the official rpms is as follows: Download latest stable libevent from http://libevent.org/ The first step of compiling libevent is to configure it as follows: ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared Complete the "make" and "make install". You will need to be root, or sudo -s, to complete the "make install". Check for a successful universal binary of libevent.a in, by default, /usr/local/lib by using the following command: "file /usr/local/lib/libevent.a" Download and Extract the latest tor source code from https://www.torproject.org/download In the resulting directory: LIBS=-lrt ./configure make dist-rpm You should have at least two, maybe three, rpms. There should be the binary i386.rpm, a src.rpm, and on redhat/centos machines, a debuginfo.rpm. ## Instructions for building RPMs for multiple architectures or distributions ## using 'mock' Make sure you have mock installed and configured, see following HOWTOs for setup: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds Take the source RPM generated by previous step, and execute mock for every target architecture (the names come from files in /etc/mock, strip the .cfg extension in the -r parameter): mock --rebuild -r fedora-17-x86_64 tor-X.Y.Z.src.rpm (Note: don't build under OpenVZ - it breaks unshare() syscall, which in turn breaks mock. It could save you several hours.)