RPM annoyance

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> >I like to build my RPMs from source, which means SRPMs.  Seemingly
> >randomly, right at the end of the build process, when it should be
> >actually creating the RPM, instead I see (what looks to me) a cryptic
> >error "glob counldn't find something or other".  Someone suggested that my
> >autoconf is horked or something like that, but i don't see this for every
> >SRPM i try to build, just some of them.
>
> When I build any RPMS, I redirect the output of the build to a
> file through tee so that I can look at the results later:
> 	rpm -ba xxx.spec 2>&1 | tee /tmp/rpm.test
>
> This output file is often very helpful in tracking problems like this.
>
> Autoconf is probably less likely to be the problem than something in
> libtool.  I've been learning much more about autoconf, automake, and
> libtool than I ever wanted to know while compiling most of the Linux tools
> I've come to know and love to Darwin/OSX on the Macs (my first step was to
> get a working version of RPM for darwin).
>
> One thing I've learned is that there's a significant difference between
> libtool-1.3 and libtool-1.4, and libtool-1.3.5 is the most common version
> (you will find ``ltconfig'' and ``ltmain.sh'' in the build directory with
> libtool-1.3).  See http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php
> for more details.
[SNIP]

Bill, thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately, i don't think this is
explicitly a libtool problem for me.  I have libtool-1.4 installed on two
of my boxes, and on one, xfce built, and the other, i saw the glob error.

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