rpmbuild FAIL while packaging symlinks

[Michael Schwendt]

On 19/08/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 09:19 +0200, vicky wrote:
> > mv ./libmylib.so ./libmylib.so.1
> > ln -s ./libmylib.so.1 libmylib.so
>
> I'm not familiar with build packages, but are you doing that more than
> once?  (Rerunning the script.)  It looks a bit circular.

The %install section is executed only once (unless rpmbuild is run in
--short-circuit mode which most newbie packagers don't use). However,
a symlink pointing to itself could be a problem.