About the spec file in emacs-21.4-2.src.rpm

[AlaxMAX]

Can someone tell me if there is a bug in the spec file of emacs-21.4-2.src.rpm in the development branch of Fedora Core? When I try to build the binary packages with rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686-linux, the emacsclient binary isn't included in any of the binary packages. I suspect the line

%exclude %{_bindir}/emacs*

when enumerating the files for emacs-common binary packages.

[Evert]

what do you mean by Binary??

i rebuild src RPMS by installing them as NON root, and then go to /home/evert/rpmbuild/SPECS

then:

rpmbuild -ba package_name.spec

see also:
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/

[AlaxMAX]

Evert: The binary package is the one that is ready to use. I mean you install it with rpm -Uvh <package>.<architecture>.rpm and then you can use the commands provided by package. Usually, package is compiled starting from <package>.src.rpm with the command rpmbuild --rebuild --target <architecture>-linux <package>.src.rpm. In the case of emacs package, the rpmbuild command produces more packages but none of them contains emacsclient, which is used to edit a document in an already existing instance of emacs (and is very useful in doing inverse search in LaTeX). This happens for the emacs source package that I have downloaded yesterday: emacs-21.4-2.src.rpm. I have solved the problem, but I would like to know if that %exclude %{_bindir}/emacs* line is a bug in the spec file or it is a bug in my RPM installer/rebuilder utility.