Courier-0.47 RPMBuild error

[Paul Howarth]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Paul Howarth writes:
>> Most packages avoid this problem by using relative softlinks instead of
>> absolute ones, e.g.
>>
>> ln -s ../../some.dir/some.file $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/other.dir/some.file
>> instead of
>> ln -s /some.dir/some.file $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/other.dir/some.file
>>
>> This then works both inside and outside the buildroot.
> 
> 
> And how exactly would you propose to do that if you want to do the right 
> thing, and use only the autoconf-derived macros, %{_bindir}, 
> %{_datadir}, et al, for your installation paths?
> 
> Do you always want to assume that going from %{_bindir} to %{_datadir} 
> is always "../share"?

# Figure out how deep down bindir is
touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/rootfile
root=..
while [ ! -r $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}/${root}/rootfile ] ; do
	root=${root}/..
done

# Install symlink from %{_bindir} to %{_datadir}
%{__ln_s} ${root}/%{_datadir}/some.file  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}/some.file

# Clean up temporary files in buildroot
%{__rm} -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/rootfile

Technique as used in Fedora sendmail package.

Paul.