Hi all, On 05/08/15 17:15, Paul Millar wrote: > On 05/08/15 15:47, Steven Timm wrote: >> Paul, is it only the dCache rpms that fail to build or do other rpms >> also fail to build? did you try to build some other rpm? > > Sorry, I haven't tracked down the minimum demonstration. I could be > that other RPMs are building fine and something about this particular > build operation is causing the problem. > > I'll try to provide a shorter example to demonstrate the issue. I have build a minimal test case. It is available as the file rpmbuild-regression-testcase-1.tgz, from the following location: https://desycloud.desy.de/public.php?service=files&t=49f0b16280da9f28f03e6e02c085b33d To demonstrate the problem, unpack the tar file and run the 'build.sh' script. The problem stems from the following line in the spec file: #%install In the earlier version of rpmbuild (4.8.0-37) this line is ignored, as per the RPM documentation: "To create a comment, enter an octothorp (#) at the start of the line. Any text following the comment character will be ignored by RPM."[1]. With 4.8.0-47, this line is not ignored, resulting in the regression. Completely removing this line provides a work-around for the problem. Cheers, Paul. [1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-inside.html