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[Daniel Maher <address@concealed>]

Hello / Bonjour,

On a basic CentOS 5.4 x86_64 system :

# rpmbuild -ta sympa-6.0.1.tar.gz
   ...
Processing files: sympa-6.0.1-1
error: File not found: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/var/lib/sympa
error: File not found: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/var/spool/sympa
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/sbin/*
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/libexec/*
error: File not found: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/lib64/sympa
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/man/man8/*
error: File not found: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/sympa
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/locale/*/*/*
error: File not found: /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/etc/sympa
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63443
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd sympa-6.0.1
+ DOCDIR=/var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/doc/sympa-6.0.1
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/doc/sympa-6.0.1
+ /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/doc/sympa-6.0.1
+ cp -pr README README.charset NEWS COPYING AUTHORS doc/sample 
/var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1/usr/share/doc/sympa-6.0.1
+ exit 0
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files 
/var/tmp/sympa-6.0.1
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:

        (many items here. some examples...)

   /sample/README
   /sample/employees.ldap
   /sample/robot.conf
   /sample/test/config
   /usr/bin/List.pm
   /usr/bin/Lock.pm
   /usr/bin/Log.pm
   /usr/bin/Marc.pm
   /usr/default/crawlers_detection.conf
   /usr/default/create_list.conf
   /usr/default/scenari/review.listmaster
   /usr/default/scenari/review.owner
   /usr/default/web_tt2/d_editfile.tt2
   /usr/default/web_tt2/d_install_shared.tt2
   /usr/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/sympa.mo
   /usr/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/web_help.mo
   /usr/man/man8/bounced.8.gz
   /usr/man/man8/sympa.8.gz
   /usr/static_content/icons/back.png
   /usr/static_content/icons/begin.png

        (etc...)

The problem appears to be poorly specified directories within the build 
process.  As a test, i passed some explicit directory options to 
rpmbuild thusly :

# rpmbuild -ta sympa-6.0.1.tar.gz --define "_prefix /opt/sympa" --define 
"_localedir /usr/share/locale"

The prefix was respected in some cases, and ignored in others.  The 
locale destination was ignored.  Taking a look at the Makefile of a 
basic ./configure from source, we can see that some of the destinations 
are built dynamically based on ${var} (such as prefix), but others are 
not.  This is not tidy, and is the likely source of the prefix being 
only partially applied during the build.

The locale destination was ignored because the related argument is not 
supported by ./configure (despite what --help says) :

# ./configure --help | grep localedir
  --with-localedir=DIR    obsolete option, use --localedir instead
# ./configure --localedir=/usr/share/locale
configure: error: unrecognized option: --localedir=/usr/share/locale

That said, passing --with-locale= to ./configure works properly.

I did not test any other options, but it may be the case that the 
variables expected by the .spec are not being generated or set properly 
during at configure or build time.

All of this leads to my final question : is there an official .spec file 
available that works ?

Finalement, je parle français aussi : la liste francophone, est-elle 
plus actif ?  Si oui, je demanderai là-bas. :)

Thank you / merci !


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Daniel MAHER <dma+sympa AT witbe DOT net>