On 12/16/10 1:11 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 12/15/10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One issue is that it assumes the tarfile can be copied to
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. That doesn't exist on my openSuSE box. It's
>> /usr/src/packages/SOURCES.
>>
>> Perhaps configure should look for the correct directory?
> Pretty sure that's a rpmbuild configuration problem.
> The default is /usr/src/something. You can set a different root
> directory in the file ~/.rpmmacros iirc. I don't remember the
> incantation. I think the rpm variable in question is %topdir
> or something like that.
That might be a problem too, but the rule for rpm in the toplevel
Makefile says to copy maxima-5.23.tar.gz to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and
runs rpmbuild. But this is not important to me since I don't plan on
building rpms.
Does the rpmbuild work for you now?
Ray