Using SRPM method to install Shibboleth on Amazon EC2 ...

[Peter Schober]

* Sam Wilson <swilsonau at gmail.com> [2014-04-17 11:33]:
> I do have to wonder why you don't just pull the rpm from
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/shibboleth/
> 
> Assuming your Linux is over the RHEL variety the only issue you will
> have are around SELinux.

At least http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2014.03-release-notes/
indicates that "Amazon Linux" uses a different glibc, a different gcc,
a different httpd, etc. compared to the lates CentOS version (6.5 at
this time). As such rebuilding the SRPMs is likely required for a
working stack.
-peter