building own RPMs

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 04:36:54PM +0100, msilber wrote:
> but latest at "make install" I need to be root, nor?

This is *exactly* why you shouldn't be. You need to make it install into the
"buildroot" (a confusing name -- it's where the _package_ is assembled from
generated files, not where the code is built). Many modern makefiles support
this easily -- use the macro "%makeinstall" in the spec file where you would
use 'make install'. However, a lot don't, and require a bit of patching.

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