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[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:31, Wade Maxfield wrote:
>   Here is my error
> 
> updating cache ./config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating Make.conf
> creating config.h
> + %make
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.80724: line 46: fg: no job control
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.80724 (%build)
> 
> 
> 
>    I suspect something different between redhat and mandrake.  However, 
> the previous versions of mandrake rpms compiled just fine.
> 
>   Looking at the rpm-tmp.80274 file, line 46 is
> 
> %make
> 
>   make is indeed a good command.  Is the % causing the problem???

Yes.

>   Is this a source RPM issue, or is it Stupid User Tricks?

Stupid RPM macro tricks ;-). Mandrake's RPM has a "%make" macro which
likely will get expanded to "make" with some options. Red Hat's RPM
doesn't have a "%make" macro -- replace it with "make" and you should be
fine.

Nils
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