[Scribus] Frustrating RPM build problem -- SOLVED

[Scott Karns]

Hello all.

I just finished tracking down a curious and very
frustrating RPM build problem. Let me start by stating
that it is not a scribus build bug, rather an
autoconf/automake bug.

I have successfully used the same specfile to build my
RPMs from CVS snapshots for the better of a year now
when a few days ago my builds began to fail during the
install phase. The error I was getting was:

/usr/bin/install -c -p -m 644 ./colorchart.h          
      \
/home/scott/RPM/tmp/scribus-1.3.3-0.cvs20060221.1sak-buildroot/usr/include/scribus/colorchart.h
/usr/bin/install -c -p -m 644 ./colorcombo.h          
        \
/usr/include/scribus/colorcombo.h
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file \
`/usr/include/scribus/colorcombo.h': No such file or
directory
make[3]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/scott/RPM/BUILD/scribus-1.3.3cvs/scribus'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/scott/RPM/BUILD/scribus-1.3.3cvs/scribus'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/scott/RPM/BUILD/scribus-1.3.3cvs/scribus'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from
/home/scott/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.63260 (%install)

So my question was, why is DEST_DIR not used for
colorcombo.h? I looked and looked at the corresponding
line in scribus/Makefile.am and for the life of me,
could not see any difference. Not until a looked at
what whitespace was on that line as compared to the
other, error free lines, did I understand. The
colorcombo.h line in scribus/Makefile.h had tabs in it
and all the surrounding lines had multiple spaces in
them. It was then a simple matter to create the
following patch:

--- scribus-1.3.3cvs/scribus/Makefile.am.orig  
2006-02-21 \
17:02:16.000000000 -0700 
+++ scribus-1.3.3cvs/scribus/Makefile.am       
2006-02-23 \
20:13:43.000000000 -0700 
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/collect4output.h    
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/collect4output.h
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/color.h             
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/color.h
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/colorchart.h        
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/colorchart.h
-       $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/colorcombo.h        
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/colorcombo.h
+       $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/colorcombo.h        
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/colorcombo.h
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/colorm.h            
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/colorm.h
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/cpalette.h          
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/cpalette.h
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/crypt.h             
        \
$(prefix)/include/scribus/crypt.h

Sorry, but this MUA doesn't allow me to send
attachments. I see that it has also converted the tabs
in the line in question to spaces, but hopefully you
get the idea.

The versions of the auto* family of utilities on my
build system are:
  automake1.7-1.7.9-2mdk
  autoconf2.1-2.13-24mdk
  automake1.4-1.4.0.p6-1mdk
  autoconf2.5-2.59-6mdk

I hope this will save someone else the frustration
this caused me.

-Scott

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