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| From: | Timothy Y. Chow |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnubg] Installing gnubg in my own directory |
| Date: | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:48:19 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 8 June 2009, I wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Michael Petch wrote:This should help you: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-anywhere-different-build-area.html You may get errors building with that rpm. I'd probably recommend downloading a latest snapshot or retrieve the latest from CVS.Thanks for the tip; however, I'm still having problems. That page suggests that I create a .rpmrc file with a line like topdir: /u/tchow/mysubdirectory in it. But when I do that, I get an error:
I found the answer to my question at
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-list/2008-November/000020.html
The solution is to use the file .rpmmacros rather than .rpmrc. That
file should contain the lines
%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/whatyouwant
%_srcrpmdir %{_topdir}/<WHATYOUWANT> the default is SRPMS
Tim
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