Spec file help

[Kir Kolyshkin]

This is because you have %{buildroot} in BuildRoot: definition (because 
originally you had curly braces around 'buildroot', so someone from this 
list suggests that you are missing %). So you have recursive BuildRoot 
definition (much like GNU == GNU's Not Unix;).

The correct buildroot statement would be:

BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root

or, if you prefer (that really doesn't matter

BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-buildroot

Gavin Henry wrote:

>I can't this as I originally install from source and now the rpm won't build. 
>I get loads of:
>
>Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16)
>    File not 
>found: /var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/netmon_applet.debug
>(sorry for the length)
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