On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Agarwal Deepesh-A19519 wrote: > I'm using RPM 4.2. I tried the following combination, but still failed :( > > ---------------------------------------- > Prefix: /users/venkatsr/ACE/ACE_wrappers/ace > > %files > #some README files if required > %{prefix}/libACE.so.5.3a.1 > ---------------------------------------- > Error it throws: > error: File must begin with "/": %{prefix}/libACE.so.5.3a.1 > I do relocatable packages in 4.2, and I just define a macro like: %define ace_base /where/ace/goes/by/default And then do: Prefix: %{ace_base} ... %files %{ace_base}/file1 ... %{ace_base}/fileN Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list