koji build failed

[Michel Salim]

On 12/09/2007, subhodip biswas <440volt.tux at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > However dist-f8 fails with following error :-
> > >  var/tmp/straw-0.27-4-F13608/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/straw/constants.py:libdir
> > > =
> > > os.path.normpath('/var/tmp/straw-0.27-4-F13608/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/straw')
> > > Found '/var/tmp/straw-0.27-4-F13608' in installed files; aborting
> > > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65277 (%install)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tried to fix it with the following
> > >
> > > sed -i -e "s@${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}@@" constants.py.in
> > >
> >
> >
> > You need to find out why and when constants.py (not constants.py.in)
> > is created with $RPM_BUILD_ROOT filled into it. Then replacing the
> > buildroot string in the %install section would very likely work. Also
> > note that the %build section should not do anything with $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > unless it cannot be avoided.
> >
> constant.py is used to constants.py is there so that the program knows
> its version and the location of its data files
>
> Placed in straw_distutils.py (attached)
>
> here it is pointing to tmp which causes an error in check build root
>
> how can i prevent constants.py from pinting to tmp?? please help
>
You should perhaps try building on your own machine first. It's easier
to debug when you can actually poke into the files being installed in
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT.

Regards,

-- 
Michel