I'm having serious trouble making my very first RPM package.
I have cut the project back to a bare minimum -- just a Hello
World program. I have been reading the Maximum RPM book and
the Red Hat RPM Guide. I'm working on Redhat 9.
The only real complication I can see is that I'm not root on
the build machine. To take care of that I set
%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpm
in my .rpmmacros file. That seems to work OK.
For a while I tried to make a relocatable RPM, but I have
temporarily give up on that. I think I don't need Prefix:
or Buildroot: lines in my .spec file. Right? I made sure
to refer only to directories where I can write.
Oh, I suppose I should mention the symptom. I can run
rpmbuild -bc OK, but -bi fails. In fact, -bl fails too.
The output of -bl is shown below. The .spec file and Makefile
are also included.
---- rpmbuild -bl output ----------------------------
$: rpmbuild -bl howdy.spec
Processing files: howdy-1.0-1
Provides: howdy
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
Processing files: howdy-debuginfo-1.0-1
Provides: libbfd-2.13.90.0.18.so.debug libopcodes-2.13.90.0.18.so.debug
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe
------ howdy.spec ----------------------------------------------
Summary: A hello world program
Copyright: none
Group: Misc/Nonsense
Name: howdy
#Prefix: /u/ek/pln/bin
Provides: howdy
Release: 1
Source: howdy-1.0.tar.gz
Version: 1.0
#Buildroot: /tmp/plnrpm
Vendor: The GLAST LAT Collaboration
%description
A trivial program to practice on
%prep
%setup
%build
make
%install
make install
%clean
%files
/u/ek/pln/bin/howdy
-------- Makefile --------------------------------
all: howdy
howdy: howdy.c
gcc -o howdy howdy.c
install: howdy
cp howdy $(HOME)/bin
* Patrick L. Nolan *
* W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
* Stanford University *
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