- From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
- Date: 02 Aug 1999 11:38:18 +0200
- To: www-lib@w3.org
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:
> [snip!]
>> I have a SuSE linux 5.3 system (libc5 based).
>> To avoid the work of creating my own RPM I thought I would give the
>> source RPM for RedHat 6.0
>> http://www.w3.org/Library/Distribution/SRPMS/w3c-libwww-5.2.8-3.src.rpm
>> a shot.
> I bit the bullet and installed g++-2.7.2.1 and tried an rpm --build.
> It crashed with the following message:
> ...
> + DOCDIR=/var/tmp/%name-root//usr/doc/packages/w3c-libwww-devel
> + DOCDIR=/var/tmp/%name-root//usr/doc/packages/w3c-libwww-apps
> + exit 0
> Binary Packaging: w3c-libwww-5.2.8-3
> File must begin with "/": %defattr(-,root,root)
> Build failed.
What I did to fix this was to remove all lines containing "%defattr"
in
/usr/src/packages/SPECS/w3c-libwww.spec
and do an
rpm -ba w3c-libwww.spec
in the SPECS directory.
The "%defattr" directive is new from RPM 2.5.x on. SuSE 5.3 uses RPM
2.4.12.
Received on Monday, 2 August 1999 05:38:22 UTC