Ville Skyttä wrote : > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 15:48 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > > > > /var/tmp/foo-1-1-noarch > > > /var/tmp/foo-1-1-x86_64 > > > > Yuck, though, in practice mostly harmless, since we enforce the consistent > > use (ie, not mixing) of either %buildroot or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT. > > I don't think it's harmless. Stuff in /usr/lib/rpm uses $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > no matter what one does inside the specfile. > > So if one installs into and otherwise deals with %{buildroot} inside the > spec, chances are that the scripts in /usr/lib/rpm will not operate on > the expected build root. > > And if one uses $RPM_BUILD_ROOT everywhere in the specfile, things will > probably work just fine but having %{_target_cpu} in the buildroot > definition is useless for some cases. Things are getting fun and interesting now! :-) What I really fail to understand is how when you don't specify a BuildRoot: in a spec file, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ends up empty, but when you define %buildroot in a macro, it gets a value which is different! The easiest possible explanation here would be that %buildroot gets expanded multiple times, one being what we see set as $RPM_BUILD_ROOT and another being what the "echo %{buildroot}" in the spec file shows. I've tried to dig a little deeper, as this might be easy to fix (although I doubt it), but am completely lost in the macros right now... might be a simple matter of having the arch globally set from the spec file value _before_ the buildroot gets globally set for the first time. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.91 (FC6 Test2) - Linux kernel 2.6.17-1.2445.fc6 Load : 0.14 0.18 0.15 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging