On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:16 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> The use of the %{_sysconfdir} and %{_mandir} is somewhat problematic on RHEL4.
>
> Since the package's configure script defaults to using /etc and
> /usr/share/man anyway, why are the rpm macros being used?
>
> See the following:
>
> #==============================================================================
> # ---- configure macros.
> # Macro(s) slavishly copied from autoconf's config.status.
> #
> %_prefix /usr
> %_exec_prefix %{_prefix}
> %_bindir %{_exec_prefix}/bin
> %_sbindir %{_exec_prefix}/sbin
> %_libexecdir %{_exec_prefix}/libexec
> %_datadir %{_prefix}/share
> %_sysconfdir %{_prefix}/etc
> %_sharedstatedir %{_prefix}/com
> %_localstatedir %{_prefix}/var
> %_lib lib
> %_libdir %{_exec_prefix}/%{_lib}
> %_includedir %{_prefix}/include
> %_oldincludedir /usr/include
> %_infodir %{_prefix}/info
> %_mandir %{_prefix}/man
They're not problematic, you're looking at the wrong place. See the
definitions in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros. That's the place where %
_initrddir for example is defined which makes me think you simply don't
have redhat-rpm-config installed.
- Panu -
