Posts tagged “toptips”

March 07, 2012 rpmbuild whatnot
Random rpmbuild stuff:
- Here's how to create symlinks when building an RPM
- If you're packaging a statically-built binary (I know, I know) and it suddenly craps out with "unexpected reloc type in static binary", put this in your spec file:
```
    %define __os_install_post %{nil}
```
(Found here)
- To see what macros are defined for your RPMs, run:
```
rpm --showrc
```
- The best way I found to make a symlink in an RPM is like so:
```
pushd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/bin
ln -sf ../package/bin/foo .
```
- If an rpmbuild invocation fails, don't forget to remove $RPMBUILDROOT. OTOH, that might be my fault for not including that as part of the setup...not sure.