On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:02:25 -0500, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:50:49PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > >Do you use %buildroot macro in your ~/.rpmmacros or wherever else to
> > >override the default %{_tmppath}/glibc-2.3.4-root
> > >?
> > >If so, you need to make sure that the string length of your buildroot
> > >is shorter or equal to /usr/src/debug.
> > >This is not specific to glibc, almost all other packages need that too.
> > >You can grep the rpmbuild -ba build log for
> > >install_root=
> > >if you are unsure.
> >
> > Strange, I've never come across a problem with that, and I generally use
> > the much-longer version recommended at:
>
> Argh, meant to write longer or equal obviously (and it is not buildroot,
> but $RPM_BUILD_DIR aka %{_builddir} what needs to be longer or equal to
> /usr/src/debug).
>
> So e.g.
> /usr/src/build/number/BUILD/
> or
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/
> are ok while /tmp/build is not.
>
> The thing is that /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit rewrites paths in
> %{_builddir}/* to /usr/src/debug/* and it simplifies the program a lot
> of it can assume only shrinking of the strings, not growing (otherwise
> it would need to be a full blown dwarf2 parser/rewriter).
>
> Jakub
>
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AHA! That must be it. I am in fact using /tmp/BUILD as my buildroot.
Thanks!!!
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