Re: build of rpm fails

[Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> cd . && aclocal-1.4
>>> cd . && automake-1.4 --foreign --include-deps Makefile
>>> cd . && autoconf
>>> configure.in:8: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: sub-expression 1 not present
>>> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>>> make: *** [configure] Error 1
>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.60759 (%build)
>> Nobody with a clue?
>> The current tor version on this system built fine from
>> tor-0.1.1.24-tor.0.fc5.src.rpm. Why is the newer 0.1.1.25 a problem!?
> 
> Have you tried building the old one again? I don't think anything
> changed in the RPM spec file between 0.1.1.24 and 0.1.1.25. So my
> first thought is that something has changed on your side. :)

Perhaps I went from FC5 to FC6 in the mean time.
Also the naming of the rpm changed.
Why would things fail?