RE: Build errors for mc-4.5.51-0_helix_1.src.rpm

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Hale [mailto:frankhale yahoo com]
> 
[snip]
> > (2) Get and install the GNOME stuff from
> >         http://people.redhat.com/dcm/software.html
> > It's there as tarball, src.rpm, rpm and deb. (I had trouble with the
> > src.rpm for some reason, but I break everything :)). They are not at
> > all big: 30k or something.
> > 
> 
> Well gnome-doc-tools-1.0-1.src.rpm won't build
[snip]
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
> Processing files: gnome-doc-tools-1.0-1
> File not found:
> /var/tmp/gnome-doc-tools-1.0-1-root/usr/man/man1/png2eps.1
> File not found:
> /var/tmp/gnome-doc-tools-1.0-1-root/usr/man/man1/dbnochunks.1
> PreReq: sgml-common /bin/sh

Sounds like you're using a RPM 3.0.5, and the SPEC files are slightly old.
The /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress line gzips the man files.  If you install the
src rpm, and then edit the spec file, you can fix that.  Just add * to the
end of all of the lines in the %files section, change the version number
(change the release from 1 to 2), and then rpm -ba with the new spec file.
Sorry these are a bit rushed, many things to do, school has started.  :-)
Later,
	Greg