Hi,
I have here a tarball with specfile, and building with rpm fails with the mysterious message
Processing files: vitalnix-devel-3.3~beta2+git3-jng3.i586
Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides vitalnix
error: line 126: Illegal char '@' in: %changelog
error: Failed to find Provides:
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix?) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames?) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies?) <= 3.0.3-1
RPM build errors:
line 126: Illegal char '@' in: %changelog
The point is, there is absolutely no @ anywhere in there. Upon close inspection of rpmbuild, I notice this in the function call chains:
Breakpoint 8, appendStringBufAux (sb=0x6fd240,
s=0x7fffffffb740 "pkgconfig(vitalnix) = @PACKAGE_VERSION_SIMPLE@\n", nl=0)
at rpmstring.c:77
Upon inspection, I find that my vitalnix.pc has
Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION_SIMPLE@
Which once was defined, now is not anymore. But the point here is that rpm gave me a very strange error message. pkgconfig() is openSUSE 11.3's /usr/lib/rpm/pkgconfigdeps.sh that is run as part of find-provides and find-requires. So line 126 perhaps isn't line 126 after all, because this new Provides: does not come from my spec file in the first place.
It would have been much more useful if rpm printed the problem, that is, the "s" variable here, and preferably, that it came from outside the specfile. That would have instantly hinted me towards pkgconfig without having to fire up gdb.
Using rpmbuild-4.8.0.
