OK, after creating several directories and installing expat, I get most of the way through the RPM build process. However, it chokes at the end:
(cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/abiword-0.99.2/abi/../abidistfiles/icons; cp abi* /home/David/abifiles//Linux_2.4.10-12a_ppc_OBJ/AbiSuite/icons) (cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/abiword-0.99.2/abi/../unixfonts/fonts ; cp *.* /home/David/abifiles//Linux_2.4.10-12a_ppc_OBJ/AbiSuite/fonts) make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src' make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/abiword-0.99.2/abi' + cd ../abiword-plugins /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3013: cd: ../abiword-plugins: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3013 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3013 (%build) make[2]: *** [rpm] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src/pkg/linux' make[1]: *** [distribution] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/abiword-0.99.2/abi/src' make: *** [distribution] Error 2 What's missing where? And how do I get it there? This doesn't look like a missing empty directory... -- David Chart