Bug 174594 - SRPM uses hard-coded build-root, disregards %_buildroot
Summary: SRPM uses hard-coded build-root, disregards %_buildroot
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gcc4
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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: 187864 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-30 15:40 UTC by Steve Snyder
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-12-02 08:49:27 UTC
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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. ***


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