[mapserver-dev] Problem when compiling 6.2.0 beta 2 for RPM

[Stephan Meißl]

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 17:14 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
> When building an RPM package, the files get typically installed into a 
> build directory, which can be placed anywhere in the file system.
>    In the "make install" phase of the RPM build process, a get to the 
> point where:
> 
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c _mapscript.la 
> /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/mapserver-6.2.0-0.beta2.el6.x86_64`/usr/bin/python 
> -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print 
> get_python_lib(1)"`
> libtool: install: error: cannot install `_mapscript.la' to a directory 
> not ending in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/builddir/build/BUILD/mapserver-6.2.0-beta2/mapscript/python'
> 
> where it complains that the target dir is not a subdir of 
> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages.
> 
> How did other packagers handle this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 

Hi Peter,

that's odd, I thought this has been resolved (see [1]), at least I had a
somehow working spec file then (see [2]).

What does your spec file look like?

cu
Stephan

[1] https://github.com/Schpidi/mapserver/commit/6e60a7e85bbdebc9c375fd18feb3ed72be19616b
[2] http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/RPMs-from-trunk-td4902205.html