On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:11 -0700, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > First off thanks to all for your tremendous help without it i would have probably given up on bacula by now. Lets just say it is a probably a good thing the fedora box is remote so i cannot physically get to it. Got C++ installed managed to get the extras working and seem to have the rpmbuildtree in my home directory. Looks like i am on to a whole new set of problems now, but this is great i think this means progress right? > > rpmbuild]$ ls > bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS > [rmvg@shoemasters rpmbuild]$ rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'fc3 1' --define 'build_mysql 1' --define 'build_mysql4 1' bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm > Installing bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm > warning: user sbarn does not exist - using root > warning: user sbarn does not exist - using root > warning: user sbarn does not exist - using root > warning: user sbarn does not exist - using root > warning: user sbarn does not exist - using root > warning: user sbarn does not exist - using root > error: You must specify a platform. Please examine the spec file. > error: line 67: Unknown tag: exit 1 We got the defines wrong. Try this: $ rpmbuild --rebuild \ --define 'build_fc3 1' \ --define 'build_mysql4 1' \ bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm > ps. I am unaware of top posting not sure what u mean, none of the other lists i am on seem to notice anything. Is this message top posted too? Yes, it is. See here for an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Cheers, Paul.