Re: Gnome-db spec file problem

[Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja <rmoya tsai es>]

Hi Rebecca!

> I get the following error message in a gnome spec file build.  Is
> there special syntax for setting up a file to have an /etc/ directory
> in the build root?
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-db-0.0.90'
> + mkdir -p /var/tmp/gnome-db_0.0.90root/etc/CORBA/servers
> + mv
> /var/tmp/gnome-db_0.0.90root/usr/etc/CORBA/servers/gnome_db.gnorba
> /var/tmp/gnome-db_0.0.90root/etc/CORBA/servers/gnome_db.gnorba
> mv:
> /var/tmp/gnome-db_0.0.90root/usr/etc/CORBA/servers/gnome_db.gnorba: No
> such file or directory
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.12374 (%install)
>
> The install appears to be looking for /usr/etc while the build-root
> has /etc and /usr in separate, parallel directories.
>
> I have a couple of spec files that might have parallel examples, but
> wondered if anyone knew right off how to set up the spec file so that
> it wasn't trying to put things in directories that didn't exist.
>

As I see from the error messages, you are trying to build the RPMs with the
gnome-db-0.0.90 tarball that's on the web site. This won't work, since only
the version in CVS builds RPMs ok (today I've built them ok on my redhat
6.0 box), so you should better build them from CVS.

Cheers