OK, I thought I had this worked out but its not building a binary rpm. I thinks its bombing out. Here's the message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [proftpd] Error 1 Error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22654 (%build) User machbuild does not exist - using root Group machbuild does not exist - using root (repeats about 6 times) Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22654 (%build) I don't think it can find mysqlclient but I may be wrong. I located it at /usr/lib/mysql TIA