[xiphos-devel] building biblesync on Centos-7

[Fred Smith]

On a fully updated (except for all the 7.5 packages in the CR repo, 
which are NOT installed) Centos-7, attempting to create a binary RPM
for biblesync 1.2.0.

I've got the spec file (from the same download site as the .tar.gz source
file) in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS, and the .tar.gz file in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES.
I issue rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/biblesync.spec, and get a few
screens-full of output, which ends in this:

		Processing files: biblesync-devel-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64
		Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.LnSoWg
		+ umask 022
		+ cd /home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILD
		+ cd biblesync-1.2.0
		+ DOCDIR=/home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/biblesync-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/biblesync-devel-1.2.0
		+ export DOCDIR
		+ /usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/biblesync-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/biblesync-devel-1.2.0
		+ cp -pr AUTHORS /home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/biblesync-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/biblesync-devel-1.2.0
		+ cp -pr COPYING /home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/biblesync-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/biblesync-devel-1.2.0
		+ cp -pr ChangeLog /home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/biblesync-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/biblesync-devel-1.2.0
		+ cp -pr README /home/fredex/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/biblesync-1.2.0-1bsp.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/biblesync-devel-1.2.0
		cp: cannot stat 'README': No such file or directory
		error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.LnSoWg (%doc)


		RPM build errors:
		    bogus date in %changelog: Thu Nov 04 2014 Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> - 1.1.2-1
		    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.LnSoWg (%doc)

being largely ignorant of how rpmbuild actually works, I blindly tried
removing that specific line from the spec file. no go. so I deleted
all the lines from the changelog section, leaving an empty changelog
section. no go.  so I deleted the empty changelog section. same-o same-o.

I note that there is no file named README in the tar archive (there is
README.md though). So I removed README from the %doc section, removing
CHANGELOG entirely, the voila! it builds!

so I suppose this is a bug report for biblesync, if you want to consider
it as such.

Fred

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