Me again! :-) Houston , we have a problem!
I'm not too sure how to characterise this but, I'll start along these lines: 1) I'm fairly sure that rpmbuild (and friends) depends on some pretty stable autotools stuff in the source archive. For this reason I have been harping on about getting the autotools packager right. 2) Nasty and only diagnosed tonight !-( rpmbuild looks in the packager's home dir for a couple of nicely hidden and cryptic files called ".rpmrc" and ".rpmmacros". .rpmrc appears to contain the i-whatever architecture translates, viz: buildarchtranslate: i386: i586 buildarchtranslate: i486: i586 buildarchtranslate: i586: i586 buildarchtranslate: i686: i586 .rpmmacros on the other hand has some stuff that are important, viz %_topdir /home/bb/src/rpm %_tmppath /home/bb/src/tmp %packager paddys-hill %distribution phhorse %distsuffix ph12 %vendor Paddys-Hill_dot_Net 3) I'm pretty sure that we are using a generic and reasonably stable version of rpmbuild: [bb@bluecow ~]$ rpmbuild --version RPM version 4.8.1 <aside>I am aware that there are (ahem) later versions available, but not on sourceforge. (Ahem! and the changelog IMHO looks a little like a mad cow on steroids who has lost her Valium prescription.)</aside> 4) We build rpm packages for our clients outside gambas. Which work. So I'm not too amendable to the idea of mucking around with these files to suit the gambas packager. 5) The problem, as far as I am able to see with my limited knowledge of rpm builds, is the (_topdir) and (_tmppath) macros. These tend to override the places that the gambas rpm builder scripts are looking for "stuff", in particular the source archive. If you are still reading by now, God bless you. I've been trying to track this down for 12 hours straight. E'en more. I really would appreciate it, if you do know a heck of a lot about rpmbuild, that you let me know so we can fix this and add it back to gambas. Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user