[PLUG] Uh, oh! rpm --rebuild failed

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Apr 12 15:26:52 UTC 2002


On Thursday 11 April 2002 07:54 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   I'd appreciate ideas on what to do about this error. I was rebuilding
> > the rawhide-1.0 openldap source package ('rpm --rebuild
> > openldap-2.0.23-4.src.rpm') and it happily churned away for a while until
> > it choked on this:
> >
> > mkdir .libs
> > grep: /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.la: No such file or directory
>
>   ln -s to the rescue.
>
>   Now it's a matter of what to do about chkconfig and bash. The latest
> sendmail wants more current versions than I have installed, and chkconfig's
> latest and greatest wants a newer version of initscripts. This is getting
> too close to the kernel for me to be comfortable without really
> understanding what I'm doing.

This looks like you need to rerun "ldconfig".  It should not be looking in 
/usr/local/lib for those files. (Redhat uses /usr/lib for everything 
"standard".)  Also take a look at the spec file for the RPM and see if it is 
pointing to /usr/local/lib.  Might be some developer's screw-up...





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