Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 102182
Compiling glibc srpm fails
Last modified: 2016-11-24 09:48:24 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: while running "rpmbuild --rebuild glibc-2.3.2-63.src.rpm" in the rpm install phase you get an error executing the following command gzip -9nvf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/libc* this direcroty doesn't exist in the end of the build, so the build bombs out. commenting out this line : #gzip -9nvf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/libc* in the spec file solves the problem Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.3.2-63.src.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpmbuild --rebuild glibc-2.3.2-63.src.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: build failed while running gzip -9nvf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT% {_infodir}/libc* Expected Results: build should succeed Additional info: compiled the system in taroon with the latest updates from up2date
Do you have texinfo installed?
now when i installed texinfo it builds fine. maybe it should be in build preregs or dependencies of something (rpm-build, glibc, whatever)...
I'd say rpm-build. texinfo is needed by lots of packages to build, so it seems silly to repeat that in every package.
no, it only makes sense to do this in the .src.rpm that needs it
texinfo is so basic requirement it shouldn't be listed in each package which needs it.