Re: still confusion with the %doc directive in a spec file

[Giulio Orsero <giulioo tiscalinet it>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:41:38 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>  first, even though i've defined:
>  BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/${name}-root
>if i try to use a shortcut in the %files section of
>  %doc README ChangeLog (etc etc)
>

>the build looks for these doc files, and finds them, in ~/rpm/BUILD.  
~/rpm/BUILD
has no meaning, unless you say you defined %_topdir as ~/rpm

>*not* in an RPM-specific subdirectory for this particular RPM that i'm 
>building, but in the shared BUILD directory.  this makes no sense.  can 
>someone explain this?  it would have made far more sense if this %doc 
>shortcut looked in, say, the RPM-specific build root directory.
>comments?

%doc are never searched in the BuildRoot.
They are usually searched in
%_topdir/BUILD/<package-directory>

Maybe show a trimmed down spec file you are using that show the problem you
see.

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