# problem building git 1.6.0 on SuSE

1 messages from 2008-08-22 to 2008-08-22. Participants: MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15158

## MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de, 2008-08-22 11:47

Subject: problem building git 1.6.0 on SuSE
Message-ID: <1KWV74-1aI9su0@fwd34.aul.t-online.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1KWV74-1aI9su0%40fwd34.aul.t-online.de

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Hi,


I get the following errors when rpmbuild'ing git:

RPM build errors:
    File not found by glob:
/var/tmp/git-1.6.0-1-root-michael/usr/lib64/git-core/*svn*
    File not found by glob:
/var/tmp/git-1.6.0-1-root-michael/usr/lib64/git-core/*cvs*
    File not found:
/var/tmp/git-1.6.0-1-root-michael/usr/lib64/git-core/git-archimport
    File not found by glob:
/var/tmp/git-1.6.0-1-root-michael/usr/lib64/git-core/*email*
    File not found:
/var/tmp/git-1.6.0-1-root-michael/usr/lib64/git-core/git-gui
    File not found:
/var/tmp/git-1.6.0-1-root-michael/usr/lib64/git-core/git-citool

I have to replace %{_libexecdir} by /usr/libexec in git.spec to get
around this
problem. 

I guess the %{_libexecdir} macro's value is not respected 
everywhere in configure(.in) etc.

The reason may be that on my system rpm --eval %{_libexecdir} returns:
/usr/lib64
. 
While on others it may return /usr/libexec. And if /usr/libexec is used
somewhere
hard wired it won't show up that the value %{_libexecdir} is ignored.

Still I think this is potentially a general problem not only related to
SuSE.

I may take care of this problem at some later point when I have some
more time
to learn about the git's building and packaging internals. Maybe
somebody else
can do it quicker.

Cheers,
Michael

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