rpm build error with 6.1

[Farkas Levente]

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.



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