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<B>Remy CLOUARD</B>
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<I>Thu Jan 13 22:57:11 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:41:46AM +0200, P. Christeas wrote:
><i> On Thursday 13 January 2011, Hoyt Duff wrote:
</I>><i> > ...
</I>><i> > I contacted the author, who says the rpm will build on Fedora. He
</I>><i> > says: "Path error. The .spec file "%define _prefix /usr/local"
</I>><i> > (compare with a "./configure --prefix=/usr/local") and in the %files
</I>><i> > section "%{_libdir}/%{name}" should pick up "%_prefix". For some
</I>><i> > reason it doesn't but then again I never built RPM's on Mandriva...
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > ... and gave me a hack to try that fails also with an error he has
</I>><i> > never seen before,
</I>><i> > error: Package already exists: %package __restore__
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Can someone point me to where in the Mandriva docs I can find info on
</I>><i> > what might be going wrong? Thanks.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> (by just looking at your mail, no deeper look at rkhunter or else)
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</I>><i> The prefix should be "/usr", and not explicitly defined in the project's spec.
</I>><i> Reason: all software that is installed through distro packages goes to /usr.
</I>><i> All other that installs through "./install.sh" or custom hacks goes to
</I>><i> "/usr/local"
</I>><i> So, make sure that "/usr/local" is _not_ the path passed to ./configure and
</I>><i> used to install files onto.
</I>><i>
</I>That’s true.
I would add that we also have preconfigured macro that ensures standard
directories are respected (among other things).
Could you try using %configure2_5x instead of ./configure ? the prefix
part should be dropped.
If you are curious about what it does, you could try rpm --eval
%configure2_5x :-)
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