building ppp from src rpm failed in f17

[Kevin Wilson]

Thanks!
Last one, really:
suppose I want to build a source rpm. I do not
want to run make install as I do want to keep my orig binaries.
So what should I do ?
this is in fact the reason that I tried
rpmbuild -bp specFile
and the moving to BUILD/ppp-2.4.5 and ./configure && make from there.
But with ppp it failed.
Is there a flag which tells rpbuild not to build but not to run make install ?

rgs
KW

Do

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Am 16.12.2012 19:33, schrieb Kevin Wilson:
>> Thanks for the advice. I am well aware of it.
>
> so why ignore it?
>
>> This machine is a testing machine with very
>> little which is important and it is backed up
>
> does not matter
>
> there is no clean buildroot guaranteed if running as root
>
>> Forgive me my ignorance: quick question: does
>> rpmbuild --rebuild
>> includes running "make install"? I did not notice
>
> for sure, try to understand how rpmbuild works
>
> * unpack the sources
> * run configure
> * make install in the buildroot
> * pack the RPM is all files are existing and listed in the %files section
>
> and that is why running as root makes pretty no sense
> / from the view of the build-rpcoess is the clean buildroot
> under rpmbuild and anything which tries ot break out there
> is simply a bug which must not happen
>
> so if all is working normal there is no need for root permissions
> and if there comes a "permission denied" something was not normal
> and thank god for not allow whatever it tried to run
>
>
>
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