[Yum] Build issues on rhel4

[Peter C. Norton]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:46:50PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:16 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > The use of the %{_sysconfdir} and %{_mandir} is somewhat problematic on RHEL4.
> > 
> > Since the package's configure script defaults to using /etc and
> > /usr/share/man anyway, why are the rpm macros being used?
> > 
> > See the following:
> > 
> > #==============================================================================
> > # ---- configure macros.
> > #       Macro(s) slavishly copied from autoconf's config.status.
> > #
> > %_prefix                /usr
> > %_exec_prefix           %{_prefix}
> > %_bindir                %{_exec_prefix}/bin
> > %_sbindir               %{_exec_prefix}/sbin
> > %_libexecdir            %{_exec_prefix}/libexec
> > %_datadir               %{_prefix}/share
> > %_sysconfdir            %{_prefix}/etc
> > %_sharedstatedir        %{_prefix}/com
> > %_localstatedir         %{_prefix}/var
> > %_lib                   lib
> > %_libdir                %{_exec_prefix}/%{_lib}
> > %_includedir            %{_prefix}/include
> > %_oldincludedir         /usr/include
> > %_infodir               %{_prefix}/info
> > %_mandir                %{_prefix}/man
> 
> They're not problematic, you're looking at the wrong place. See the
> definitions in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros. That's the place where %
> _initrddir for example is defined which makes me think you simply don't
> have redhat-rpm-config installed.

Uh-huh. That's a package that's not required anywhere, and isn't a
generic requirement of the package. Where does it exist in other
distributions? How is anyone supposed to know about this? It's not in
the depends in the .src.rpm, so why should it be relied on?  The need
for conditionals is still present.

-Peter

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