Re: weird bug in rebuilding RPMs

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> zhong ming wu escribi:
>> I can now rebuild rpms so that all files go under a specific directory
>> specified by _prefix directive in ~/.rpmmacros Forgetting lots of
>> other bugs that I managed to fix, this weird bug is making me use
>> _prefix that does not include the word "pgsql" in the path name any
>> where.

> Yeah, the Makefiles contain a trick to put append "/pgsql" to the
> include dir (and others) if the prefix does not already contain "pgsql"
> or "postgresql" or similar. This is probably what is causing the build
> to fail. See src/Makefile.global.in:

Yeah, I suspect that the RPMs depend in various ways on the assumption
that those pathname substitutions will happen. I haven't got round to
testing, but it might be a good idea to change rpm-pgsql.patch to make
the substitutions unconditional, so that the file layout below the
_prefix is fixed regardless of what the _prefix is.

But having said that, I don't get the point of trying to build a
nonstandard installation from the RPM. That seems more or less
antithetical to most of the design concepts of RPM-based distros;
and it certainly seems pretty silly if your intent is to transition
to the standard RPM later.

regards, tom lane