• I downloaded the source for check install. checkinstall-1.6.2.tar.gz.
• I then tar -xzvf checkinstall-1.6.2.tar.gz
• Then I make.

It prints this error:

[root@ip-50-63-180-135 checkinstall-1.6.2]# make
for file in locale/checkinstall-*.po ; do \
            case ${file} in \
                    locale/checkinstall-template.po)  ;; \
                    *) \
                            out=`echo $file | sed -s 's/po/mo/'` ; \
                            msgfmt -o ${out} ${file} ; \
                            if [ $? != 0 ] ; then \
                                    exit 1 ; \
                            fi ; \
                    ;; \
            esac ; \
    done
make -C installwatch
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sofiane/checkinstall-1.6.2/installwatch'
gcc -Wall -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -DVERSION=\"0.7.0beta7\" installwatch.c
 installwatch.c:2942: error: conflicting types for 'readlink'
 /usr/include/unistd.h:828: note: previous declaration of 'readlink' was here
 installwatch.c:3080: error: conflicting types for 'scandir'
 /usr/include/dirent.h:252: note: previous declaration of 'scandir' was here
installwatch.c:3692: error: conflicting types for 'scandir64'
/usr/include/dirent.h:275: note: previous declaration of 'scandir64' was here
make[1]: *** [installwatch.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sofiane/checkinstall-1.6.2/installwatch'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I searched extensively on this issue and this solution looks promising. Should I attempt to install checkinstall as an fpm? What would be the best way to go about that?

Centos 6.3 x86_64