Re: rpmbuild fails - check-files with getOutputFrom(): Broken Pipe

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein cse ogi edu>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 ddembrow@nlxcorp.com wrote:

> RPM build errors:
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/lib/libforms.so.1.0
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/lib/libforms.a
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/lib/libformsGL.so.1.0
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/lib/libformsGL.a
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/lib/libflimage.so.1.0
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/lib/libflimage.a
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/local/bin/fdesign
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/local/bin/fd2ps
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/include/forms.h
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/include/glcanvas.h
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/include/flimage.h
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/share/man/man1/xforms.1x
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/share/man/man1/fdesign.1x
>     File not found: /var/tmp/xforms-root/usr/share/man/man1/fd2ps.1x
>
> Any other suggestions?  Has something changed to the install section?

Two suggestions:

1. On Red Hat systems, xforms will try to install its libraries with
   the other XFree86 stuff in /usr/X11R6/lib, *not* in /usr/lib.

2. rpm will compress the man pages, so you need either a * or a .gz at
   the end of each, e.g., xforms.1x* or xforms.1x.gz.

I've got a .spec online that's worked for me, though it doesn't
include any man pages:

  http://www.madboa.com/geek/specs/xforms.spec

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@cse.ogi.edu>