[lug] need rpm dev forum

[Hugh Brown]

I'll guinea pig it.

Hugh

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, D. Stimits wrote:

> Hugh Brown wrote:
> > I would think a question about rpms would be apropos of a linux user group
> > mailing list such as this one :)
>
> Well...what I'm trying to do is create an SRPM for a simple library
> (.so) file. Running make creates lib/libMyLib.so.0.0.0 (version 0.0.0,
> release 1). Running make install puts it in /usr/lib/libMyLib.so.0.0.0,
> and creates sym links for libMyLib.so.0.0 and libMyLib.so.0 and
> libMyLib.so. It also should have a devel rpm created which depends on
> the lib, and installing devel will install a header file to
> /usr/include/MyLib/MyLib.h.
>
> Unfortunately, my spec file is failing. It creates an SRPM, but rpmbuild
> --rebuild is broken in it. Mainly I'm trying to figure out how to do
> this from i386 samples, not from SRPM samples, which is a problem. The
> part which is failing though at this moment (there have been many parts
> failing, I'm slowly weeding them out) is it is missing a directory.
> There is in the spec file a temp directory, used in building, specified as:
> BuildRoot:
> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
>
> As far as I can tell, the %{_tmppath}/ exists, but then it is failing to
> create the subdirectory
> %{name}-%{version}
>
> So, the temp file fails when it tries to cd to
> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}, although the %{_tmppath} portion is ok.
>
> Next I fixed this by adding a mkdir in the %prep, but the script is
> still failing to be able to cd here (presumably it is in the wrong
> directory to start with, and was not in the %{_tmppath} before trying to
> cd, or else it did not create the subdirectory before the attempt to cd
> there, despite this being a "prep" section).
>
> Is there anyone who would volunteer to be a guinea pig and let me email
> the spec file for analysis? The library Makefile itself has a "make
> tarball" to self-package that way, as well as a "make srpm". The library
> is not done yet, but it works without warning and without bugs right now
> (I plan on adding more features before releasing it). So far it should
> compile without problem on FC2 through FC4 for anyone with g++.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
>
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