rpmbuild error

[Todd Rinaldo]

On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:27 PM, bclark at bwkip.com wrote:

> I am getting this error:
> 
> error: error creating temporary file ${prefix}/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CsA3oo: No
> such file or directory
> error: Unable to open temp file
> 
> This error occurs after call to check-files.
> 
> lines of executing (%PREP,%BUILD, %INSTALL) also have the ${prefix} but it
> has a prior / example) /${prefix}/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.t50rm1
> 
> Not sure where $prefix is coming from
> 
> RPM Version: 4.8.0
> 
> command executed: rpmbuild -ba filename.spec
> 


You most likely ${prefix} somewhere in your spec file. can you provide a paste with the contents of the spec file?

http://pastie.org/