# [PATCH] Build RPMs locally unless overruled in ~/.rpmmacros

2 messages from 2009-03-30 to 2009-04-02. Participants: Niels Basjes, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18644

## Niels Basjes, 2009-03-30 15:10

Subject: [PATCH] Build RPMs locally unless overruled in ~/.rpmmacros
Message-ID: <1238425839-6337-1-git-send-email-Niels@Basjes.nl>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1238425839-6337-1-git-send-email-Niels%40Basjes.nl

```
From: Niels Basjes <niels@basjes.nl>

Signed-off-by: Niels Basjes <niels@basjes.nl>
---
 .gitignore |    1 +
 Makefile   |    8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1c57d4c..2f2554b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -173,3 +173,4 @@ configure
 tags
 TAGS
 cscope*
+RPM_BUILDING
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7867eac..ad5a1f7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -242,7 +242,13 @@ RM = rm -f
 TAR = tar
 FIND = find
 INSTALL = install
-RPMBUILD = rpmbuild
+RPMBUILDOPTS = $(shell if [ "`grep '^%_topdir' $(HOME)/.rpmmacros`" == "" ];        \
+                       then                                                         \
+                           mkdir -p RPM_BUILDING/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS};  \
+                           echo '--define="_topdir `pwd`/RPM_BUILDING"' ;           \
+                       fi                                                           \
+                )
+RPMBUILD = rpmbuild $(RPMBUILDOPTS)
 TCL_PATH = tclsh
 TCLTK_PATH = wish
 PTHREAD_LIBS = -lpthread
-- 
1.6.1.3

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2009-04-02 06:47

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Build RPMs locally unless overruled in ~/.rpmmacros
Message-ID: <7vfxgrimas.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vfxgrimas.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1238425839-6337-1-git-send-email-Niels@Basjes.nl>

```
Niels Basjes <Niels@basjes.nl> writes:

> From: Niels Basjes <niels@basjes.nl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Niels Basjes <niels@basjes.nl>

I am not opposed to have an option to build RPM binary packages in-tree,
and RPM_BUILDING might be an already accepted name for the directory (even
though it looks too loud to my eyes, you may have chosen it because it is
a common practice in the RPM land---I am not an RPM person so I wouldn't
know).

But I thought somebody already pointed out a possible regression scenario.
If one has been running 'make rpm' with RPMBUILD that invokes rpmbuild
command with a custom yet not $HOME/.rpmmacos file via --macros option, or
has been running it as a user that can write into system-wide rpm
workplaces, this patch would break such an established workflow.

Perhaps something along this line might work just as well, without
breaking things for people?

	ifdef RPM_BUILD_HERE
        RPMBUILDOPTS = --define="_topdir $(pwd)/RPM_BUILDING"
	rpmprep:
        	mkdir RPM_BUILDING
                mkdir RPM_BUILDING/BUILD
        	mkdir RPM_BUILDING/RPMS
        	mkdir RPM_BUILDING/SOURCES
        	mkdir RPM_BUILDING/SPECS
        	mkdir RPM_BUILDING/SRPMS
	else
        RPMBUILDOPTS =
        rpmprep:
		: nothing
        endif

	rpm: dist rpmprep
        	$(RPMBUILD) $(RPMBUILDOPTS) -ta $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz

By the way, as far as I can tell, you do not need to have SOURCES
directory in order to run "make rpm" in git.git.

> +RPMBUILDOPTS = $(shell if [ "`grep '^%_topdir' $(HOME)/.rpmmacros`" == "" ];        \
> +                       then                                                         \
> +                           mkdir -p RPM_BUILDING/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS};  \

Not everybody runs bash.

> +                           echo '--define="_topdir `pwd`/RPM_BUILDING"' ;           \
> +                       fi                                                           \
> +                )
> +RPMBUILD = rpmbuild $(RPMBUILDOPTS)
>  TCL_PATH = tclsh
>  TCLTK_PATH = wish
>  PTHREAD_LIBS = -lpthread

You need to have "make clean" remove RPM_BUILDING.

```
