Hi Richard, Thanks very much for your help! On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:12:56 -0500 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been playing around building a RPM file. The file in question is > > peksystray available from: > > > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/peksystray/peksystray/0.4.0/peksystray-0.4.0.tar.bz2 > > > > I am able to download it and compile it using: > > > > ./configure > > make > > sudo make install-strip > > > > No problems. > > > > Now to create a RPM. I have tried using rpmbuild on the attached spec > > file (rpmlint -vi on it gives no errors and no warnings) in the > > SPECS sub-directory within my rpmbuild directory using: > > > > rpmbuild -ba peksystray.spec > > > > but I get errors. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? > > I did a quick spec review but I didn't download the source. I've made > some tweaks to your spec and added comments. Also note that while > rpmdev-newspec and even vi will create default spec files that contain > unnecessary sections and tags as long as you're not building for > Fedora < 14 or EL < 6, such as: > > BuildRoot: > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in %install > %clean entirely > %defattr in %files sections. > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/peksystray.spec So, I ran this, but I still continue to get the same error: $ rpmbuild -bb peksystray.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2qQ4iE + umask 022 + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf peksystray-0.4.0 + /bin/tar -xf - + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /home/maitra/rpmbuild/SOURCES/peksystray-0.4.0.tar.bz2 + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd peksystray-0.4.0 + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w . + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.BCUTdT + umask 022 + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd peksystray-0.4.0 + CFLAGS='-O2 -g' + export CFLAGS + CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' + export CXXFLAGS + FFLAGS='-O2 -g' + export FFLAGS + ./configure --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk...gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc...gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... no configure: error: X development libraries not found error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.BCUTdT (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.BCUTdT (%build) I don't understand why the X development errors are not found, yet I am able to compile just fine.....for comparison sake, I get, when I do ./configure manually: $./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries , headers checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands The above is on a 64-bit machine. On a 32-bit machine, with the above spec (as well as the old one), I get: $ rpmbuild -bb peksystray.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.BohwTI + umask 022 + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf peksystray-0.4.0 + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /home/maitra/rpmbuild/SOURCES/peksystray-0.4.0.tar.bz2 + /bin/tar -xf - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd peksystray-0.4.0 + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w . + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2bm2uj + umask 022 + cd /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd peksystray-0.4.0 + CFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686' + export CFLAGS + CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686' + export CXXFLAGS + FFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686' + export FFLAGS + ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries /usr/lib, headers checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands + make -j2 make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/peksystray-0.4.0' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/peksystray-0.4.0/src' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686 -MT peksystray.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/peksystray.Tpo" -c -o peksystray.o peksystray.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/peksystray.Tpo" ".deps/peksystray.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/peksystray.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686 -L/usr/lib -lSM -lICE -lX11 -o peksystray peksystray.o /usr/lib /usr/lib: file not recognized: Is a directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [peksystray] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/peksystray-0.4.0/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILD/peksystray-0.4.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2bm2uj (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2bm2uj (%build) The source compiles fine here also (without errors, that is) and is usable. Why the differences on two machines having essentially the same set of packages installed (but for the 32-bit/64-bit)? Many thanks again and best wishes, Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
