rpmbuild question

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:55 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On F14, - with latest updates as of an hour ago.
>
> Whenever I try to build a package from source rpm,
> using rpmbuild, I get scrolling output like:
>
> error: Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16)
>  15<                               (empty)
>  14<                             /lib/modules/
>  13<                           (empty)
>  12<                         (empty)
>  11<                       (empty)
>  10<                     (empty)
>   9<                   (empty)
>   8<                 (empty)
>   7<               (empty)
>   6<             %{_kpkgname}-kmdl--debuginfo"
>   5<           debuginfo
>   5<           jjack
>   8<                 %{_kpkgname}" = "%{_kpkgname}" && echo 1 || e...
>   7<               1
>  14<                             grep -i fedora.core /etc/redhat-r...
>  13<                           f
>  14<                             %{VERSION}' /etc/redhat-release |...
>  13<                           14
>  12<                         14 | sed -e's,\.,_,g'
>  11<                       f14
>  10<                     f14
>
>
> It seems harmless in the sense that the build completes.
>
> Does anyone know what's causing it, and h ow to fix it?

No clue... but you might try reposting to the devel list to improve
your chances of getting an answer.

If I saw that on my system I would try "yum reinstall rpmbuild" first.

Richard