Re: rpmbuild and whitespace in path names

[Felix Schwarz <Felix Schwarz web de>]

Hi James,

James Olin Oden wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Felix Schwarz <felix schwarz web de> wrote:
>> example command:
>> > rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir /home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm' --clean
>> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec
>>
> You might try '_topdir "/home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm"'
> as your definition.  Basically I just added quoting around the
> definition value.  This may fail miserably, as this is just a guess.

Tried that, failed. The exact error message is in my original mail
just two paragraphs below the passage you quoted.

> How about filing a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.

I tried to gather some more information on the topic before filing
bug reports in order to reduce the number of irrelevant/badly written
reports. :-)

-- 
Felix