From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: When trying to rebuild the updated sendmail 8.12.8 from the RH 8.0 SRPM on a RH7.2 machine, the rpm build fails with: Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17079 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd sendmail-8.12.8 + sed -e 's,%{_libdir},/usr/lib,g' -e 's,%{_lib},lib,g' redhat.config.m4.in sed: can't read redhat.config.m4.in: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17079 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17079 (%build) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download sendmail-8.12.8-1.80.src.rpm 2. install SRPM 3. modify spec file to make errata=72 4. execute rpm -bb sendmail.spec Actual Results: error with: Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17079 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd sendmail-8.12.8 + sed -e 's,%{_libdir},/usr/lib,g' -e 's,%{_lib},lib,g' redhat.config.m4.in sed: can't read redhat.config.m4.in: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17079 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17079 (%build) Expected Results: produced necessary RPM files Additional info:
The sendmail 8.12.8 Red Hat Linux 8.0 SRPM was not designed to be compiled for Red Hat Linux 7.2 and therefore quite likely would need further work to make it work.
http://people.redhat.com/laroche/ has an updated rpm that should also compile on older releases. greetings, Florian La Roche