Re: "buildroot?" or "buildroot^M^M"

[Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley novell com>]

True that the ^M chars probably were not visible in vi.  However, 
I bet if you looked at the status bar (bottom line of the term running vi)
you would see "[dos]". 

On Friday 30 January 2004 09:18 am, martin.dm.hull@bt.com wrote:
> Woohoo, that did it. My original cut for this was a paste from a webpage
> into notepad. From there I did a few tweaks and pasted it into vi in an
> xterm session. Pasting from notepad was enough to add the evil
> characters although oddly they were never visible in vi. Usually the ^M
> at the end of every line is a giveaway.
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Whiteley [mailto:bwhiteley@novell.com]
> Sent: 30 January 2004 16:06
> To: rpm-list@redhat.com; Hull,DM,Martin,XJG12 HULLDM R
> Subject: Re: "buildroot?" or "buildroot^M^M"
>
> Don't create your spec files on a windoze box.  :)  If you do, run
> dos2unix on them,
> or
>   perl -p -i -e 's/\r//g' <spec_file>
>
> On Friday 30 January 2004 08:57 am, martin.dm.hull@bt.com wrote:
> > Trying to make an RPM work is sucking away my lifeblood but I am
>
> slowly
>
> > making progress.
> >
> >
> >
> > The version of rpm I am using is 4.0.4. Is that really old?
> >
> >
> >
> > All the files in my %files section generate file not found errors.
> > However I can cut'n'paste straight for the error text and do an ls on
> > the files. They are there, so what is the problem?
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's the %file section. There should be lots more files but I'll add
> > them when I get this to work.
> >
> >
> >
> > %files
> >
> > %defattr(-,root,root)
> >
> > %doc README COPYRIGHT EXCLUDED FAQ CHANGES
> >
> > /opt/bind-9.2.3/sbin/named
> >
> > /opt/bind-9.2.3/sbin/rndc
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's the last wee bit of the rpm output which shows the errors
> >
> >
> >
> > /opt/bind-9.2.3/bindirs /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root
> >
> > /opt/bind-9.2.3/bin isc-config.sh
> > /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root
> >
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> >
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
> >
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
> >
> > Processing files: bind-9.2.3-1
> >
> > error: File must begin with "/":
> >
> > error: File not found:
> > /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/opt/bind-9.2.3/sbin/named
> >
> > error: File not found:
> > /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/opt/bind-9.2.3/sbin/rndc
> >
> > Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.92436
> >
> > + umask 022
> >
> > + cd /home/mhull/rpmbuild/BUILD
> >
> > + cd bind-9.2.3
> >
> > +
>
> DOCDIR=/home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/usr/share/doc/bind-9.2.3
>
> > + export DOCDIR
> >
> > + rm -rf
> > /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/usr/share/doc/bind-9.2.3
> >
> > + /bin/mkdir -p
> > /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/usr/share/doc/bind-9.2.3
> >
> >  /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/usr/share/doc/bind-9.2.3
> >
> > cp: cannot stat `CHANGES\r': No such file or directory
> >
> > error: Bad exit status from /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.92436
> > (%doc)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > And here are the files
> >
> > [mhull@mars sbin]$ ls
> > /home/mhull/rpmbuild/tmp/bind-9.2.3-root/opt/bind-9.2.3/sbin/
> >
> > dnssec-keygen      dnssec-signkey   lwresd  named-checkconf  rndc
> >
> > dnssec-makekeyset  dnssec-signzone  named   named-checkzone
> > rndc-confgen
> >
> >
> >
> > Some more questions.
> >
> > 1.	Why do I get an error 'file must begin with "/"'?
> > 2.	Why the error with CHANGES? This file was not copied across.
> > What is the '\r' on the end of the line? Have I got some funny
> > characters on the ends of my lines? Just for a laugh, I swapped the
> > order of the files on this line such that FAQ was last - and now it
> > fails!!!
> > 3.	What do I have to do to make this work?!
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Martin

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