[oclug] Welcome Screen -- CDR-W burning

[Johnathan Hicks]

"G. R. Gaudreau" wrote:
> Nope, I've got 1.9 of cdrecord and 1.13 of mkisofs. Here's what xterm
> tells me whan I start gcombust:
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> Message: All mkisofs versions prior to the one found
> in cdrtools-1.10a16 has a bug regarding the handling of
> the -- shell escape. Starting from version 0.1.43,
> gcombust uses the -- sequence (I spent an evening
> tracking down and fixing the mkisofs bug - I think I'm
> entitled to use the feature :). This means gcombust will
> only work with a recent mkisofs (check with mkisofs --version,
> it should be at least 1.14a16). gcombust does not check the
> versions of the programs it invokes.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> It appears I'll have to update both versions. That's probably why I'm
> having problems with GToaster as well.
> 
> I don't usually do builds, I use rmp. Everytime I try to do builds,
> something goes wrong. I'm not good when it comes to that stuff.

Actually building the cdrtools it a pretty easy thing to do, just edit
one line of one file, type make, type make install, and it's done. :)
You'll get the hang of building stuff eventually, you just have to
remember to check in the documentation for anything special before you
try to build it.
Bow go forth and unleash RPM upon the new .rpm!

--John