On 05/25/2011 08:30 PM, Mike McLean wrote:
On 05/21/2011 05:09 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
hi, it seems most of the rpm in 6.1 have the same problems as described in: http://www.mail-archive.com/buildsys@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg00741.html
This is not quite the same error output, and we don't really know what was going on in that earlier thread since the OP never wrote back. However, my reply is the same as before:
Could be an issue in this particular spec, or could be an issue with the rpm version in the chroot (e.g. rhbz#56103).
Can you post the spec? Which version of rpm was in the buildroot?
many src.rpm (i mean many hundreds of packages) in rhel-6.1 when try to rebuild in mock gives such an error:
Executing command: ['bash', '--login', '-c', 'rpmbuild -bs --target i686 --nodeps builddir/build/SPECS/OpenEXR.spec'] error: Macro % has illegal name (%define) error: Macro % has illegal name (%define) error: parse error in expression error: /builddir/build/SPECS/OpenEXR.spec:2: parseExpressionBoolean returns -1 error: Macro % has illegal name (%define) Building target platforms: i686 Building for target i686 Child returncode was: 1
where the spec contains this line: %if 0%{?fedora}> 7 || 0%{?rhel}>= 6 which seems to good to me. and such problems don't happened with 6.0.
If this is really the culprit, then it is probably an rpm bug (for the version of rpm in the chroot, not the build host) similar to 56103. If you really think this is it, then you should be able to create a very simple spec that reproduces the error.
i already wrote a bz about it #706672 but even though it may be an rpm bug too (not just mock) since this shouldn't have to be happened, but at least i now found a workaround for it.