>________________________________ > From: Mark Galeck (CW) <mgaleck@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:27 AM >Subject: is there any chance rpmbuild exits before reading %files file > >Hello, > >I am using rpmbuild command version 4.4.2.3 on Linux, with the following syntax > >rpmbuild -bb --define <defines> --target ppc-linux --buildroot <full path to a temp directory <spec file> > > >The rpmbuild command fails with this message > >Could not open %files file <file in the %files section>: No such file or directory > > >I did carefully examine the situation and as far as I can tell, the file in question, is present before rpmbuild starts executing. After rpmbuild exits, that file is immediately deleted. > > >Could it possibly happen, that somehow rpmbuild is executing "in the background", as if, returning early, and then still reading the file in %files. I don't think problem related to the background execution. I suggest you run rpmbuild under strace, like strace -f -s300 rpmbuild -bb --define <defines> --target ppc-linux --buildroot <full path to a temp directory <spec file> Then you'll see exactly what file and in what directory rpmbuild tried to open and what was errno Valery. > > >Is there any chance of this happening? > >Thank you, > >Mark >_______________________________________________ >Rpm-list mailing list >Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > > > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list