rpmbuild error

[Todd Rinaldo]

On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:06 PM, bclark at bwkip.com wrote:

>> 
>> 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 have ${prefix} somewhere in your spec file. can you provide a
>> paste with the contents of the spec file?
>> 
>> http://pastie.org/
>> 
>> 
> Here is the paste of the spec file:
> 
> Summary: Man pages for man
> Name: man-pages
> Version: 3.23
> Release: 1
> License: GPL
> Group: Documentation
> Source: %name-%version.tar.bz2
> BuildRoot: %name-%version-%release-build
> 

My BuildRoot is usually something like this:

BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-build

or I think this will work but I'm not certain how consistently, depending on distribution, %_tmppath is available

BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-build

try this command and verify what you get: rpm -E '%{_tmppath}'

I suspect if you set your BuildRoot to something like that your problem will go away.

Todd
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