Question:

Why, in the %build section of my rpm spec file, does this work:

%build
libtoolize --force --copy
autoheader
aclocal
automake --add-missing --copy $am_opt
autoconf
./configure
make

But this does NOT work:

%build
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Note that autogen.sh (as you might have guessed) contains exactly the same lines as in the first example above (up to, but not including the ./configure line).

Thanks,
John

What are you attempting to build? What's the package?

I'm maintaining the openslp project - I'm fairly new to the world of rpms, and I'm trying to setup my spec file for a new release. The autogen.sh shell script is a script file at the root of the openslp project. (www.openslp.org - www.sf.net/projects/openslp).

The problem seems to be the autogen.sh shell script cannot be found. Oddly however, the configure script (in the same directory) can be found. Once I've executed the autotools, then the project root is visible, and contains the files necessary to run ./configure. How can running libtoolize, aclocal, automake, and autoconf have anything to do with the visibility of the project root to rpmbuild?

I'm still at a loss - I'd rather run my autogen.sh file than duplicate the contents of it in the rpm spec file. It would be better for maintenance.

Thanks in advance,
John

have you considered the daft ideas - such as checking file permissions?