I was trying to rebuild the rpms on x86 RH9 from the sourceforge
lesstif-0.93.97-1.src.rpm using the command line
rpmbuild --rebuild --define "_topdir /u/martin/rpm-builds/build-area" --buildroot
/u/martin/rpm-builds/build-install lesstif-0.93.97-1.src.rpm
but this fails with
File not found:
/u/martin/rpm-builds/build-install/usr/local/share/aclocal/ac_find_motif.m4
The problem is that the install phase of rpm didn't install ac_find_motif.m4.
This happens because configure checks for `aclocal --print-ac-dir` being a
writable directory and I'm running rpmbuild as me (not root) so the system ac
dir is unwritable.
This looks wrong to me for 3 reasons:
1) In normal non-rpm builds, it should be possible to run configure and make
as a normal user and then run make install as root. With the current
configure, this won't install ac_find_motif.m4.
2) In the rpm build, the make install is done into a private directory so an
unwritable system ac dir is an irrelevance.
3) The system ac dir is /usr/share/aclocal but the spec file packages it in
/usr/local/share/aclocal/ac_find_motif.m4.
Any comments?
__Martin
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