hi friends,

Im new to this forum.
can anyone here tell me how to create a rpm package for simple "Hello world" c program.
I have created a spec file. It's giving error in Buildroot:
can any one help me,
Thanks in advance




Jayasekar

You might wanna ask a mod to put this in the programming forum they may be able to help you a bit more.

Can you please post your spec file ?

Welcome to LQ.

I think if you install the package rpmdevtools you might have an easier time. There are also gui rpm creators, where you can fill in text boxes.

Thanks for your reply
This is my spec file:

#script to build sample rpm
%define ver 1.0
%define rel 1
%define prefix /usr

Name: Demorpm
Version: 1.0
Release: 1.0
Summary: To test the rpm package building process
Group: Applications
License: GPL
#URL:
Source0: %{name}-%{ver}.tar.gz
Source1: %{name}-%{ver}
BuildRoot: /tmp/%{name}-%{ver}-root

#BuildRequires:
#Requires:

%description
To test the sample rpm build

%prep
%setup
make

%build
#make

#%configure
#make configure

%install
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
make install


%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT


%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%doc



#%changelog

More answers in this closed thread :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rogram-772590/

As suggested by AwsomeMachine, please install rpmdevtools and take a look at /etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-minimal.spec, or simply do:

where 'myapp.spec' is a new file.. and it should be prepopulated by the above spec template

cheers

Thanks for your reply friends.
rpmdevtools is installed first and then only i have started to build rpm.
Im using fedora-11, given below r the errors...

[root@js SPECS]# rpmbuild -bb Demorpm.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /root/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.8xfvPl
+ umask 022
+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf Demorpm-1.0
+ /bin/tar -xf /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Demorpm-1.0.tar.gz
+ cd Demorpm-1.0
+ /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /root/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.MqnIYn
+ umask 022
+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd Demorpm-1.0
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ make
gcc -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include -DVERSION="1.0" -c sample.c
gcc -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include -DVERSION="1.0" sample.o -o sample
+ CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
+ export CFLAGS
+ CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
+ export CXXFLAGS
+ FFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/root/rpmbuild/lib/gfortran/modules'
+ export FFLAGS
+ ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/root/rpmbuild --exec-prefix=/root/rpmbuild --bindir=/root/rpmbuild/bin --sbindir=/root/rpmbuild/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/root/rpmbuild/share --includedir=/root/rpmbuild/include --libdir=/root/rpmbuild/lib --libexecdir=/root/rpmbuild/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /root/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.gwEBhq
+ umask 022
+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd Demorpm-1.0
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ rm -rf /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/Demorpm-1.0-1.0.i386
+ make install
removed `/usr/bin/sample'
`sample' -> `/usr/bin/sample'
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/Demorpm-1.0
find: `/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/Demorpm-1.0-1.0.i386': No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /root/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.gwEBhq (%install)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /root/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.gwEBhq (%install)

hi friends, the problem is solved..

Modify the spec file as shown below

%prep
%setup -q

%build
make

%configure
./configure --prefix=/usr

%install
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/bin
make install _prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/%{name}

it will work as u think
useful link: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...tag=rbxccnbtr1

Thanks for your help and spending time to analyse my problem..
Thank you very much.