[lug] building SRPM's

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Thu Jul 14 11:27:28 MDT 2005


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>>>>> "D" == D Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> writes:

D> In trying to build my SRPM for my library, it does create the SRPM,
D> but fails to --rebuild. The temp script always tries to cd to
D> %{name}-%{version}, which exists in the BUILD directory from
D> unpacking the tarball. Only this fails, because it is trying to cd
D> there from somewhere else...probably from the SOURCE directory. Can
D> anyone tell me, in the SRPM's spec file, am I missing something
D> that is causing it to try to cd to the unpack spot starting in the
D> wrong parent directory?

Can you post the output of the 'rpm --rebuild' command on the src.rpm?

It should go through: 

%prep
%setup 
%build

the %setup macro unpacks the source in BUILD and cd's into it. 

In each section the current working directory is reset to the top
level of the SOURCE directory. 

D> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net

kevin
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