On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: > >I like to build my RPMs from source, which means SRPMs. Seemingly > >randomly, right at the end of the build process, when it should be > >actually creating the RPM, instead I see (what looks to me) a cryptic > >error "glob counldn't find something or other". Someone suggested that my > >autoconf is horked or something like that, but i don't see this for every > >SRPM i try to build, just some of them. > > When I build any RPMS, I redirect the output of the build to a > file through tee so that I can look at the results later: > rpm -ba xxx.spec 2>&1 | tee /tmp/rpm.test > > This output file is often very helpful in tracking problems like this. > > Autoconf is probably less likely to be the problem than something in > libtool. I've been learning much more about autoconf, automake, and > libtool than I ever wanted to know while compiling most of the Linux tools > I've come to know and love to Darwin/OSX on the Macs (my first step was to > get a working version of RPM for darwin). > > 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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
