Building RPM inside application source dir

[Remco Poelstra]

Hi,

I've a nice rpm build structure, which I usually use to build my rpm's. 
But for one application I want to be able to do 'make rpm' and the rpm 
should be build entirely inside that applications directory. What should 
I do to get that far? I coulnd't find any documents on the internet 
about such a case.
Can anyone here help me with that?

Thanks in advance,

Remco Poelstra

[Sam Varshavchik]

Remco Poelstra writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've a nice rpm build structure, which I usually use to build my rpm's. 
> But for one application I want to be able to do 'make rpm' and the rpm 
> should be build entirely inside that applications directory. What should 
> I do to get that far? I coulnd't find any documents on the internet 
> about such a case.
> Can anyone here help me with that?

echo "%_topdir `pwd`" >.rpmmacros
mkdir RPMS SRPMS SOURCES SPECS BUILD

Now, run rpmbuild from the current directory.

[Remco Poelstra]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> echo "%_topdir `pwd`" >.rpmmacros
> mkdir RPMS SRPMS SOURCES SPECS BUILD
>
> Now, run rpmbuild from the current directory.

But that will overwrite my current .rpmmacros file, which I need for the 
'normal' rpm build structure that I use.
Isn't there a more non-destructive way? :) Preferably it should work on 
other users systems too. I think it's bad to make assumptions on there 
.rpmmacros file....

Thanks for your reply,

Remco Poelstra

[Sam Varshavchik]

Remco Poelstra writes:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > echo "%_topdir `pwd`" >.rpmmacros
> > mkdir RPMS SRPMS SOURCES SPECS BUILD
> >
> > Now, run rpmbuild from the current directory.
>
> But that will overwrite my current .rpmmacros file, which I need for the 
> 'normal' rpm build structure that I use.

Big deal.  Create a subdirectory, and do this inside it.

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 05:44:07PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > But that will overwrite my current .rpmmacros file, which I need for the 
> > 'normal' rpm build structure that I use.
>
> Big deal.  Create a subdirectory, and do this inside it.

Or redefine the path where rpmmacros are looked for to include a file in
your build directory.

[Miles Sabin]

Remco Poelstra wrote,
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > echo "%_topdir `pwd`" >.rpmmacros
> > mkdir RPMS SRPMS SOURCES SPECS BUILD
> >
> > Now, run rpmbuild from the current directory.
>
> But that will overwrite my current .rpmmacros file, which I need for
> the 'normal' rpm build structure that I use.
> Isn't there a more non-destructive way? :)

How about,

rpmbuild --define="_topdir `pwd`" ...

Cheers,

Miles

[Remco Poelstra]

Miles Sabin wrote:
> rpmbuild --define="_topdir `pwd`" ...

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

I think I'm going to like this solution most ;-)

Remco Poelstra