Hi all, I'm having a strange problem building an rpm on F12. Everything goes fine until the build stage at which point my "BuildRoot:" parameter is being ignored. Instead of building in the location I specified, it always uses a directory called BUILDROOT. For example, I expect that the build will occur in "/tmp/rpmbuild.chris/BUILD/mypackage/" but it is trying to build in "/tmp/rpmbuild.chris/BUILDROOT/mypackage-x.y-z.fc12.i386". I put "echo %{buildroot}" into the %build section of the spec file and it outputs that BUILDROOT path even though I've explicitly set the BuildRoot variable at the top. This path seems to be set in some default rpm configuration somewhere since rpmbuild --showrc finds it, e.g.: # rpmbuild --showrc | grep BUILDROOT -14: _buildrootdir %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT But why doesn't the setting in my spec file override this? And what the heck is BUILDROOT for? I thought we should just have BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS, and SRPMS directories. Any suggestions gratefully received! Regards, Chris. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines