rpmbuild error on Fedora 9

[RedFedora]

I have two source packages that I used to compile and build into rpm files on Fedora Core 6. Since I've upgraded to Fedora 9, neither package will make it through the rpmbuild process. The error I get from each package is:

+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bftpd-2.2
find: invalid predicate `'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83072 (%install)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83072 (%install)

The name of the folder and tmp file changes with each package, but the error is the same.

I've tried editing the build scripts where it uses find, but I can't find anything that helps. Is anyone else getting this error and does anyone know a work around?

Thanks.

[brebs]

grep for the word "find" in /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh and /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83072

It would help to see the specfile.

[RedFedora]

Sure, here goes. The results of grepping the rpm.tmp file are

grep find rpm-tmp.83072
   /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh   "/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bftpd-2.2"

And here we have the results from grepping the find-debuginfo file

grep find find-debuginfo.sh
#find-debuginfo.sh - automagically generate debug info and file list
# Usage: find-debuginfo.sh [--strict-build-id] [-g]
find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" ! -path "${debugdir}/*.debug" -type f \
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ! -path "${debugdir}/*" -type l -print |
  find "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/src/debug" -type d -print0 |
  (cd "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/lib"; find debug -type d) |
   test ! -d lib/debug || find lib/debug ! -type d
   test ! -d src/debug || find src/debug -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1
  (cd "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}"; find usr/lib/debug -type d) |

Last, but not least, this is the spec file

%define    name    bftpd
%define    version 2.2
%define    release 1
%define    prefix  /usr

Summary:   A small, fast and easy-to-configure FTP server.
Name:      %{name}
Version:   %{version}
Release:   %{release}
License:   GPL
Group:     System Environment/Daemons
Vendor:    Jesse Smith <jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca>
URL:       http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/
Source0:   http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/downloads/rpm/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildArch: i386
#BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-root
Provides:  bftpd

%description
A very configurable small FTP server
bftpd is a easy-to-configure and small FTP server that supports chroot
without special directory preparation or configuration. Most FTP commands
are supported.

%prep
%setup

%build
make

%install
make install

%clean
rm -rf "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%config(noreplace) %verify(not mtime) /etc/bftpd.conf
%{prefix}/sbin/bftpd
%{prefix}/share/man/man8/bftpd.8

%changelog

Any direction you can give me would be great, thank you.

[Seve]

Hello:
Here is a bftpd.spec file and also attached are a patch and src.rpm for bftpd, if you are interested in trying them out?

Seve

[RedFedora]

I'll try that, thank you.

[RedFedora]

The patches were nice, but I still got the error. A little more digging led me to this line on line 337 of the script /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh

find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"  ! -path "/usr/lib/debug/*.debug" -type f \

It turns out that RPM_BUILD_ROOT is not set and comes up NULL, which caused find to error out. Replacing the variable name with a hard-coded location fixes the problem.

[cnd99]

Do this before you build to fix the problem:


export RPM_BUILD_ROOT=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/

Enjoy.

[DBelton]

This thread was over 4 years old that you responded to. I would hope that they had their issue fixed before now

Going to close up this really old thread.