Hi, I'm trying to create a rpm for python 2.5.4 to install it on a CentOS 5.2 box. I'm not looking to replace python 2.4 that ships currently with CentOS, rather I want to make python 2.5.4 available under /opt/python25/bin, this I have done it successfully by compiling and installing the software manually. All I had to do was a simple ./configure --prefix=/opt/python25 make make install I went ahead and created my python.spec and I'm running into a wall with the rpmbuild -ba python.spec I'm pasting my spec file and the error I get when doing the build [dan@localhost SPECS]$ cat python.spec Name: Python25 Version: 2.5.4 Release: 1 URL: http://www.python.org/ Summary: RPM Package for Python25 License: GPL Group: Development/Languages Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root Source: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/%{version}/Python-%{version}.tgz BuildPrereq: readline-devel, openssl-devel, gmp-devel BuildPrereq: ncurses-devel, gdbm-devel, zlib-devel, expat-devel BuildPrereq: libGL-devel tk tix gcc-c++ libX11-devel glibc-devel BuildPrereq: bzip2 tar /usr/bin/find pkgconfig tcl-devel tk-devel BuildPrereq: tix-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel BuildPrereq: autoconf BuildPrereq: db4-devel >= 4.3 %description Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC). %prep %setup -q %build autoconf %configure --prefix=/opt/python25 %install #[ -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ] && rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir} make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT %clean rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT #%post libs -p /sbin/ldconfig #%postun libs -p /sbin/ldconfig [dan@localhost SPECS]$ This are the last lines of the build and the content of the file that rpmbuild says Listing /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/__init__.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/_exceptions.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/expatreader.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/handler.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/saxutils.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/xmlreader.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xmllib.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py ... Compiling /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py ... make: *** [libinstall] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/rpm-tmp.87944 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/rpm-tmp.87944 (%install) [dan@localhost SPECS]$ cat /home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/rpm-tmp.87944 #!/bin/sh RPM_SOURCE_DIR="/home/dan/rpmbuild/SOURCES" RPM_BUILD_DIR="/home/dan/rpmbuild/BUILD" RPM_OPT_FLAGS="-O2 -g" RPM_ARCH="x86_64" RPM_OS="linux" export RPM_SOURCE_DIR RPM_BUILD_DIR RPM_OPT_FLAGS RPM_ARCH RPM_OS RPM_DOC_DIR="/usr/share/doc" export RPM_DOC_DIR RPM_PACKAGE_NAME="Python" RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION="2.5.4" RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE="1" export RPM_PACKAGE_NAME RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE RPM_BUILD_ROOT="/home/dan/rpmbuild/TMP/Python-2.5.4-root" export RPM_BUILD_ROOT set -x umask 022 cd /home/dan/rpmbuild/BUILD cd Python-2.5.4 #[ -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ] && rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note [dan@localhost SPECS]$ Any comments would be appreciated. Best regards, -- Dan Bahena _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
