I found the reason for this build error. It has to do with the rpath setting. Under Fedora packaging guidelines <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#AlternativeRpath> the following settings are changed in the spec file under %configure for libtool:

%configure sed -i 's|^hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=.*|hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=""|g' libtool sed -i 's|^runpath_var=LD_RUN_PATH|runpath_var=DIE_RPATH_DIE|g' libtool

commenting them out solved the problem, but I'm not sure that this is the best, or the appropriate, solution...yet.

Anyway, thanks for providing the SUSE spec file, Marcus.

EricB

On 5/17/2015 9:55 AM, Eric Broch wrote:

Marcus,

Thanks for the spec file.

I'm fairly new to creating RPM's and I just found out that the issue is taking place during the 'make check' portion of the spec file. I'm not sure what 'make check' does after having googled it, although, I think it checks for run-time errors. Any hints?

Eric

On 5/16/2015 12:52 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

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On 2015-05-16 11:52:55 -0600, Eric Broch wrote:

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I'm building on CentOS 5 (x86) and CentOS 6 (x86_64). The rpmbuild failed on both with the same error. Is there any other information you would need from me? I'm not sure if I'm missing some dependency, or not. May I trouble you for the dovecot.spec file you used to build your RPM? https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/server:mail/dovecot22

sles 11 should be close to centos 6.

darix