RPM annoyance

[Net Llama!]

At least i'm not alone in this frustration.  I actually submitted a bug to
the XFCE project on sf.net about this, and Olivier offered some
suggestions, but when they failed to fix it, he basically told me that my
system was broken.

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Marianne Taylor wrote:
> I can't tell you how to fix this, but I have had the same problem with
> checkinstall on my LinuxfromScratch system.  It seems to happen only when the
> required file is many levels deep.  It say the xxx file doesn't exist but
> when I looked there it was.
>
> This last happened with guile 1.4
>
> Marianne Taylor
>
>
>
> On April 18, 2002 09:50 am, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:21:49PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > >> 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.
> > >
> > > The glob error may well be coming from a perl script.  Perl uses
> > > /bin/tcsh (or possibly another installed csh variant) to do its
> > > glob'ing so a more broken than usual csh may be the underlying
> > > cause of the problem (the first two programs I compiled for OSX
> > > were pdksh and bash since I have forgotten most of my csh since I
> > > stopped using it as my interactive shell in 1988 or so).
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > Any other ideas?
>
>

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