[ATrpms-devel] Rebuilding dovecot (was: rpm build macros)

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:31:03PM +0000, John Robinson wrote:
> On 18/02/2007 14:40, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:39:02PM +0000, John Robinson wrote:
> >> Please excuse me if this is a FAQ, but where can I find a copy of your 
> >> rpm macros? I've just patched dovecot and I want to build a new rpm :-)
> > 
> > There are no special macros you need in rebuilding dovecot unless you
> > are on a old rpm system (RHEL4?).
> 
> Yes, it's RHEL4. I don't think of it as all that old since it's still 
> the latest release :-)
> 
> > Is bcond giving you headaches?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > Then use
> > 
> > %bcond_with()           %{expand:%%{?_with_%{1}:%%global with_%{1} 1}}
> > %bcond_without()        %{expand:%%{!?_without_%{1}:%%global with_%{1} 1}}
> > 
> > in /etc/rpm/macros
> 
> Unfortunately now I get:
> 
> error: parse error in expression
> error: /home/john/rpmbuild/SPECS/dovecot.spec:125: 
> parseExpressionBoolean returns -1
> 
> which in the original (1.0-2_45.rc22) dovedot.spec is as follows:
>     124  mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d
>     125  %if %{with pam_stack}
>     126  install -m 644 %{SOURCE222} 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/dovecot
> 
> and then later,
> checking if we can use inotify... "no"
> configure: error: inotify requested but not available
> 
> both of which make me think something's still wrong (since the spec 
> starts with bcond things about inotify and pam_stack). Sorry about this; 
> what did I do wrong this time?

Looks you also need

%with()         %{expand:%%{?with_%{1}:1}%%{!?with_%{1}:0}}
%without()      %{expand:%%{?with_%{1}:0}%%{!?with_%{1}:1}}

I'm building on RHEL4 with rpm 4.4 :)

http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/rpm/

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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