CentOS - Aug 2005 - Building bacula RPM from Karanbir's repo

Hi all,

Has anyone tried to rebuild bacula from the source RPM provided on
Karanbir's CentOS yum repo?  Every time I give it a go, I'm given this
error during the configure stage:

checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type;
you must specify one
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/BUILD/depkgs/mtx-1.2.17kes'
make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/BUILD/depkgs/mtx-1.2.17kes'
make: *** [mtx] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.1839
(%build)

I've tried specifying the host type in the spec file itself by entering
the following:

--host=x86_64-centos-linux-gnu

and

--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

but neither have worked.

This is my first go at building bacula, so I'm pretty sure I'm missing
something: I just don't know what.

Do I need to enter a macro in my .rpmmacros file?  Currently:

%_topdir        %(echo "$HOME")/rpmbuild
%_tmppath       %{_topdir}/tmp

Is the spec file hosed?  Something else entirely?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ranbir
-- 
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Systems Aligned Inc.
www.systemsaligned.com

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone tried to rebuild bacula from the source RPM provided on
> Karanbir's CentOS yum repo?
yes :) I have!
>  Every time I give it a go, I'm given this
> error during the configure stage:
> 
> checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type;
> you must specify one
 >
> I've tried specifying the host type in the spec file itself by entering
> the following:
> --host=x86_64-centos-linux-gnu
> and
> --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
whats in /etc/rpm/platform ?  and you might want to work with --define 
"_host foo"
> but neither have worked.
Have you ever managed to build anything on this machine ? ( try 
something smaller like time-*.src.rpm )
> This is my first go at building bacula, so I'm pretty sure I'm
missing
> something: I just don't know what.
> 
> Is the spec file hosed?  Something else entirely?
Spec builds fine for me. install the src.rpm and take a look, its quite 
a well defined spec[1] file.

- KB

[1] make sure you look at the changelog and see my first note in there - 
you might want to override those settings

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