Re: Building RPMs

From: Jesper Skov (jskov@zoftcorp.dk)
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 07:40:44 GMT

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    On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 00:02, David Chart wrote:
    > I'm trying to build 0.99.2 RPMs on Ximianised Yellow Dog 2.1. Abi
    > builds, but the packaging chokes as follows:
    >
    > (cd /home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/../abidistfiles/icons; cp abi*
    > /home/David/abifiles//Linux_2.4.10-12a_ppc_OBJ/AbiSuite/icons)
    > (cd /home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/../unixfonts/fonts ; cp *.*
    > /home/David/abifiles//Linux_2.4.10-12a_ppc_OBJ/AbiSuite/fonts)
    > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src'
    > make ABI_ROOT=/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi prefix=/usr/local -C src
    > distribution
    > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src'
    > Building distribution packages for linux...
    > make[2]: Entering directory
    > `/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src/pkg/linux'
    > Making source pack in directory
    > [/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/../abiword-0.99.2]...
    > tar (child): /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/abiword-0.99.2.tar.gz: Cannot open:
    > No such file or directory
    > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    > make[2]: *** [pack_rpm] Error 141
    > make[2]: Leaving directory
    > `/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src/pkg/linux'
    > make[1]: *** [distribution] Error 2
    > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/David/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src'
    > make: *** [distribution] Error 2
    >
    > How do I stop it choking at this point?

    I think you need to set up your .rpmmacros or something like that. You
    have the source installed in ~David, but by default RPM expects to build
    from /usr/src/redhat.

    Alternatively, do '# chown David.David -R /usr/src/redhat', and build
    from there (as David). That's what I do (well, as jskov :)

    Jesper

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