Description of Problem: The emacs-package tries to build Gnus in its %install stage. Without an already installed emacs this step fails. My suggestion is to split gnus into an own package or to add a `BuildRequires: emacs' to the emacs spec-file. How Reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. remove all emacs-packages 2. rpm --rebuild emacs-20.7-40.src.rpm Actual Results: W3DIR=no lispdir=/var/tmp/emacs-20.7-root/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp srcdir=. emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./dgnushack.el -f dgnushack-compile /bin/sh: emacs: command not found make[1]: *** [all] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/volatile/rpm/BUILD/emacs-20.7/gnus-5.8.8/lisp' make: *** [lick] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99036 (%install) Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99036 (%install)
Needs to be fixed, without buildrequiring emacs.
This defect considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
Fixed in emacs 20.7-41