installing from source with rpm

[Michael Blaustein <mblauste capaccess org>]

I'm trying to use the source rpms of gnome-core-1.2.3.1 and have the
following problem: rpm fails to make a full package (with the -bb
option).

It seems that the "gnome-core.files" and "gnome-core-devel.files"
files are not built completely, perhaps because the scripts in the
.spec file (such as ProcessDir) are not working correctly.

I notice that the directories referred to in the following lines of
"gnome-core.spec" do not exist in the build directory after
compilation is finished:

  ProcessLib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib runtime %{name}.files
  ProcessDir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/share/idl %{name}-devel.files "0444, bin, bin, 0555"
  ProcessLib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib devel %{name}-devel.files
  ProcessDir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/include %{name}-devel.files "0444, bin, bin, 0555"
 
Let me make it clear: this is a problem with gnome-core.spec; the
"make" of the files seems to be executed correctly, it's just the
final packaging that fails.

Thanks for any advice.

Michael Blaustein
mblauste capaccess org