Bug 174594

Summary:	SRPM uses hard-coded build-root, disregards %_buildroot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Steve Snyder <swsnyder>
Component:	gcc4	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Description Steve Snyder 2005-11-30 15:40:09 UTC

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Description of problem:
The spec file for the gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4 source RPM contains a hardcoded BuildRoot 
value, rather trhan using the standard %__buildroot variable.  The spec file has 
this line:

  BuildRoot: /var/tmp/gcc-root



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmbuild --rebuild gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4.src.rpm
2. note that building of binary packages is done beneath /var/tmp
3.
  

Actual Results:  The build halted because I didn't have permission to write to /var/tmp.  The 
permissions problem was my own fault, previously created by my fat fingers.  I 
had not had any problems in building previous packages, though, because I always 
build entirely beneath /home/rpmbuild/.

Expected Results:  The build-root should always use the value specified by %_buildroot in the .
rpmmacros file (if it exists).


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2005-12-02 08:49:27 UTC

There is no %_buildroot macro that I know of.
Some spec files just use %{_tmppath}/something and others use /var/tmp/something
I guess it is about 50%/50%.  If you want to override it in your builds,
you need to override buildroot macro, say with
rpmbuild --buildroot=/foo/bar/baz/
and that of course overrides any specified tag.
Nevertheless, I have changed gcc41.spec in 4.1.0-0.4 to use %{_tmppath}/
in the tag, but definitely not plan to change it in older rpms.

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2006-04-04 09:41:51 UTC

*** Bug 187864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***