RPM annoyance

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:50:31PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
...
>hrmmm...i had an older version of tcsh installed.  Just upgraded to the
>version that comes with RH-7.2.  Tried to build xfce from the SRPM again,
>and once again it bombed right at the end:
>
>+ /usr/local/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh /var/tmp/xfce-root xfce
>+ /usr/local/lib/rpm/brp-compress
>+ /usr/local/lib/rpm/brp-strip
>+ /usr/local/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
>Processing files: xfce-3.8.16-1
>File not found by glob: /var/tmp/xfce-root/usr/local/bin/*
>File not found by glob: /var/tmp/xfce-root/usr/local/share/xfce/*
>Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.45810

That's much more basic than a glob'ing problem.  The program's not
installing anything in the /var/tmp/xfce-root/usr/local/bin/ or
/var/tmp/xfce-root/usr/local/share/xfce/ directories.  This is usually an
inconsistency in the various macros like %{_prefix} (which I have as /usr
on Linux, and /usr/local on most other systems).  The xfce.spec file makes
pretty heavy use of %defines, and there are lots of ways to get this out of
sync in different parts of the SPEC file.  This is one reason I make heavy
use of Caldera's %{mkLists} macro to build the lists of files to be
installed.  I basically take the /usr/lib/rpm-3.0.6 directory from the
Caldera RPM package, copy the macros.OL to /etc/rpm/macros, then tweak for
local systems, to implement this on Red Hat other non-Caldera systems.

Bill
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