Re: building from source RPMS

[Quant-X Alpha Linux Support <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roman !

On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:32:22AM +0100, Roman Martonak wrote:
> I tried to build some programs from source RPMS, using rpm --recompile 
> and found that the executables are installed in strange places, 
> e.g. for bzip2 in /var, xemacs-20.4 in /tmp. Is there a way to change 
> this default behaviour as specified in SPECS and get them installed in 
> usual directories ?

Just try rpm "--rebuild" instead of "--recompile". Mainly they do the
same but "--recompile" does not build a rpm. After a successfull --rebuild
there should be nothing left from the build stage except the expected targets
in $(rpm --showrc|egrep ^rpmdir|sed -e 's/.*: //'){noarch,\
$(rpm --showrc|egrep ^rpmdir|sed -e 's/.*: //')}
; just use "rpm -[U|i] to install them.
The things you found in /var or /tmp are simply the "chrooted" install that is
needed to build the binary rpm. If the build is successfull rpm uses cpio
to store them for the binary rpm. 

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