Re: Building rpm-python from scratch?

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>>I installed the package on my
>>laptop, did an rpmbuild -bp on it and uploaded the build directory to the RHEL3 system. Although
>>running ./configure works fine (I was hoping that would catch any missing dependencies), running
>>make in the python directory produces a slew of errors (same if I try making the rpm directory first).
> 
> 
> What happens if you take the appropriate RHEL3 rpm srpm and install
> that, changing the spec appropriately hint:
>  
> %define with_python_version     2.2%{nil}
> 
> Bump release and rpmbuild -bb.  Obviously you'll have to track updating
> rpm manually, but it seems you can't really be caring about it being a
> supported RHEL instance if you just upgrade python.
> 

Ok, I'm just going to have to ask a dummy rpmbuild question now. Not having root on the RHEL3
system, I installed the .src.rpm on my laptop and copied the relevant /usr/src/redhat/* directories
from it to ~/src/rpmbuild/ on the RHEL3 box. However...

[brads@loop rpmbuild]$ rpmbuild -bb --buildroot /home/brads/src/rpmbuild/ SPECS/rpm.spec
error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/rpm-4.2.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory

My understanding was that --buildroot told rpmbuild to look in a dir other than /usr/src/redhat. I
also tried setting "%define __prefix        /home/brad/src/rpmbuild/" in the spec file, but it's
still trying to build out of /usr/src/redhat, which I don't have access too. Any idea what I'm doing
wrong here?

Thanks,
- --Brad





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