build Remmina RPM for EL7

t430z.suse
CentOS 7
3.10.0-123.9.3.el7.x86_64

Remmina is a well-known remote desktop access tool.

Following packages is necessary for the build:

remmina-1.1.1-2.git.efb7b5f.fc22.src.rpm
freerdp-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.fc21.src.rpm
remmina.spec

remmina-1.1.1-2.git.efb7b5f.fc22.src.rpm

freerdp-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.fc21.src.rpm

remmina.spec

I was using freerdp 1.2 for fc22 rpm, but failed:

-- found xkbfile, version 1.0.8
-- Found XKBFILE: /usr/lib64/libxkbfile.so
-- Finding suggested package FREERDP.
-- Disable this using "-DWITH_FREERDP=OFF".
-- checking for module 'freerdp&gt;=1.0'
-- found freerdp, version 1.2.0-beta1
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):
Could NOT find FREERDP (missing: FREERDP_LIBRARY)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
cmake/FindFREERDP.cmake:47 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
cmake/FindOptionalPackage.cmake:37 (find_package)
remmina-plugins/CMakeLists.txt:59 (find_suggested_package)

-- found xkbfile, version 1.0.8

-- Found XKBFILE: /usr/lib64/libxkbfile.so

-- Finding suggested package FREERDP.

-- Disable this using "-DWITH_FREERDP=OFF".

-- checking for module 'freerdp>=1.0'

-- found freerdp, version 1.2.0-beta1

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):

Could NOT find FREERDP (missing: FREERDP_LIBRARY)

Call Stack (most recent call first):

/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)

cmake/FindFREERDP.cmake:47 (find_package_handle_standard_args)

cmake/FindOptionalPackage.cmake:37 (find_package)

remmina-plugins/CMakeLists.txt:59 (find_suggested_package)

It’s documented as version conflicts,
remmina 1.1 for now only builds on freerdp 1.1

Ref:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529666

So I have to turn to an old version , if you have interests on building next 1.2 branch:
Ref here:
https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/wiki/Compile-on-Fedora-20

After building freerdp-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.fc21

Rebuild remmina failed:

/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/Remmina-efb7b5f87b2ed1604fa8bdf559fd4e08e2a18d9b/remmina-plugins/rdp/rdp_plugin.c:260:3: error: too many arguments to function 'rfx_context_new'
rfi-&gt;rfx_context = rfx_context_new(FALSE);
^

/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/Remmina-efb7b5f87b2ed1604fa8bdf559fd4e08e2a18d9b/remmina-plugins/rdp/rdp_plugin.c:260:3: error: too many arguments to function 'rfx_context_new'

rfi->rfx_context = rfx_context_new(FALSE);

Well, this problem is wired and it’s actually a problem on remmina/freerdp protocal un-match.

fix is to use a newer freerdp pkg, or a patch to this remmina pkg to not set this parameter FALSE
https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/commit/2c64a00c5f6c188027616f7488b29443768a800e

Alternative is to checkout spec file, and not applying following patch

# https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/228
#Patch0: %{name}-rfx_context_new.patch

1 2	# https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/228 #Patch0: %{name}-rfx_context_new.patch

# it’s not a critical issue patch fix, just a patch on build. safe to mod.

After that

#rpmbuild -bb remmina.spec

1	#rpmbuild -bb remmina.spec

works.

Install packages and works.

[root@t430z workspace]# rpm -qa| egrep 'remmina|freerdp'
remmina-1.1.1-2.git.efb7b5f.el7.centos.x86_64
remmina-plugins-rdp-1.1.1-2.git.efb7b5f.el7.centos.x86_64
remmina-plugins-vnc-1.1.1-2.git.efb7b5f.el7.centos.x86_64
freerdp-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.el7.centos.x86_64
freerdp-devel-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.el7.centos.x86_64
freerdp-libwinpr-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.el7.centos.x86_64
freerdp-libs-1.1.0-0.12.beta.2013071101.el7.centos.x86_64