From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030103 Description of problem: rpmbuild --rebuild rpm-4.2-0.68.src.rpm fails when trying to add the apidocs directory to the final rpm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpmbuild --rebuild rpm-4.2-0.68.src.rpm Actual Results: output from rpmbuild: + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.001 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.002 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.003 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.004 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.005 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.006 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.007 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.008 + touch /var/tmp/rpm-root/var/lib/rpm/__db.009 + gzip -9n 'apidocs/man/man*/*' gzip: apidocs/man/man*/*: No such file or directory then later in rpmbuild: Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97934 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd rpm-4.2 + DOCDIR=/var/tmp/rpm-root/usr/share/doc/rpm-devel-4.2 + export DOCDIR + rm -rf /var/tmp/rpm-root/usr/share/doc/rpm-devel-4.2 + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/rpm-root/usr/share/doc/rpm-devel-4.2 + cp -pr apidocs /var/tmp/rpm-root/usr/share/doc/rpm-devel-4.2 cp: cannot stat `apidocs': No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97934 (%doc) Expected Results: rpmbuild completes successfully Additional info:
Do you have doxygen installed? If not, then you will need to adjust the spec file to skip apidocs packaging, as the directory is created iff doxygen is available when configuring.
doxygen was not installed; once I installed it, the build completed successfully. Perhaps doxygen should be a prereq for the source rpm?