[Rust-users] problem & fix: can't "make install" known good software in crust --chroot

[Belden L. <bl...@ii...>]

Sorry for the long subject line. I'll make up for it by being
witty. If you get fed up with my lack of wit, skip forward to the
end, or skip back to the beginning, or just close your eyes and
click your email client until you think this message has been
deleted.

I've decided to make a set of RPMs for Sawfish, my preferred window
manager. Sawfish depends on a few libraries, so I set out today to
turn librep-0.17.tar.gz into librep-0.17.blahblahblah.rpm. I say
blahblahblah a lot because I've barely mastered English.

Now, I'm pretty dense about things, so I've just been using the guide
at http://rust.sourceforge.net/crust.html to do my rpmification. And
after fixing makeRPM.sh the other day, I was (ook) able to follow the
steps (ook ook) and create a RPM from fltk-1.1.4.tar.gz like the
banana-eating monkey that I am. A monkey who has blahblahblah English.
Ook!

Today I followed the same steps: unpack into /my/litterbox/build,
configure, make, su, crust --chroot /blahblah, make install. Boom:
the install didn't work.

This puzzled me, because I built and installed librep-0.17.tar.gz on
this selfsame box not 6 days ago. (It was 5 days ago, which I'm sure 
you'll agree is not 6 days.) No hassles during the make install phase
then. Today, in the chroot jail, no end of woes. Ook. Now I'm a
puzzled monkey who can't communicate.

At first I thought this was a missing dependency problem- such
problems are discussed on the page mentioned above; the solution is
to --include some directories. But then I decided that if that were
the problem, it would be too much work for me to solve it, so I
looked for something else to blame. Oook! Screech! A lazy puzzled
monkey with no faculty for English.

After a coffee I decided to just start over from scratch and do
everything from unpack up through install in the chroot environment.
So now I'm a highly-caffeinated lazy puzzled monkey who blahblahblah.

     $ su
     # cd /my/sandbox/build
     # \rm -rf librep-0.17
     # crust --chroot /my/sandbox
     bin/sh-2.05b# cd build
     bin/sh-2.05b# tar xzvf librep-0.17.tar.gz
     bin/sh-2.05b# cd librep-0.17
     bin/sh-2.05b# ./configure
     bin/sh-2.05b# make
     bin/sh-2.05b# make install
     bin/sh-2.05b# exit
     # chown -R blyman librep-0.17
     # exit
     $ crust &

This worked: the RPM was built successfully.

Hopefully this helps someone else who finds they're in a similar
pickle. And will someone please fling filth at me if I shouldn't
use the resulting RPM? Thanks.

Belden
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