It took me a while to get a RPM to build and install seamlessly for ROOT v5.26.00b on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) (64-bit). I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t doing anything that would break the installation at an unexpected point down the road, and put the steps I took here for anyone else having similar issues.
1st error: build/package/common/root-plugin-net-bonjour.control : No such file
Fix: Changed “–enable-bonjour” to “–disable-bonjour” in the default “build/package/lib/makerpmspec.sh”
2nd error: Complained about several missing files during build process (in particular)
File not found by glob: /tmp/rootrpm/usr/share/man/man1/xproofd.1*
–Fix: Commented out in “build/package/rpm/spec.in”
File not found: /tmp/rootrpm/usr/bin/cint
File not found: /tmp/rootrpm/usr/bin/makecint
–Fix: added the lines below “make static” in “build/package/rpm/spec.in”
make bin/cint
make bin/makecint"File not found: /tmp/rootrpm/etc/gdb-backtrace-script
–Fix: Commented out in “build/package/common/root-system-common-install.in”
3rd error: I noticed that the libraries found by “gsl-config --libs” are mistreated in the configure.
gsl-config --libs returns libs in the form “-lgsl -lgslcblas -lm” where configure expects “gsl gslcblas m”. The strange return from “basename” can confuse other scripts so I added in a line
to strip off the leading “-l” at line 4787 in the configure script
I compiled with the non-default features in “makerpmspec.sh” by adding “–enable-fftw3” and "–enable-g4root"
FFTW3 works just fine.
G4ROOT complains about a missing "build/package/common/root-plugin-montecarlo-g4root.control"
I had to add a line to “build/package/lib/makebulddepend.sh”:
and modify “configure” by commenting out the line
Similar changes had to be made to build a RPM for Fedora Core 12. I haven’t noticed any problems yet after installing the RPMs.