Re: Building net-snmp-5.1 rpm from source - problem found

Hi folks,

After much tinkering with debug options and various packages on my
Suse box - I think I have found the problem I was having with the
RPM build.

On my Suse 9 distribution, the rpm %makeinstall macro is defined
in two files:

  /usr/lib/rpm/macros
  /usr/lib/rpm/suse_macros

It looks like the 'macros' file defines a %makeinstall macro in
the manner that the net-snmp library expects to work with (i.e.
make prefix= ...), whilst the 'suse_macros' file appears to
override this expansion with the following:

  %makeinstall     make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install

Temporarily commenting out this line in 'suse_macros' and attempting
a clean build of the net-snmp-5.1 rpm results in a successful
build, giving me net-snmp-5.1-1.i686.rpm and net-snmp-devel-5.1-1.i686.rpm.

(alternative solution - remove the suse_macros entry from the macrofiles
 list in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc?)

Since I'm not an expert on the nuances of automake/conf/libtool/rpm,
I'm currently unsure whether this could be considered a bug against
the net-snmp build system - I'll do a bit more reading before I
consider raising a bug (I also need to check the existing bugs
again now I know what the problem is.)

Hope this helps somebody else :)

Regards,

Garry.




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