On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:43:17 -0700 (PDT), KA (Kamal) wrote: > Jon, > > with: > cp obj/ggsnc/ggsnc $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/ > > i get: > > + cp obj/ggsnc/ggsnc /pcore-0.1/usr/bin/ > cp: cannot create regular file `/pcore-0.1/usr/bin/': No such file or directory > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.93551 (%install) That makes no sense, because $RPM_BUILD_ROOT should evaluate to the value defined in the "BuildRoot:" tag. It seems you inserted a mistake somewhere. > The problem being that even though my Version is 0.1 , but when i untar , the directory gets created is pcore and not pcore-0.1. > Any solution for this ? Read up on the %setup macro's options. It seems you want to add -n %{name} so it enters the existing "pcore" directory instead of the default (which is %{name}-%{version}). -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging