on NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER aug NUMBER matthias saou matthias egwn net wrote once upon a time axel wrote i am now relaxed again and pass this info on probably matthias saou himself is dude and some package has hardwired a path in his build directory it would be nice to find out which and fix it but i am using too many of the freshrpm suite to narrow it down indeed my usual login is dude and has been since long before the big lebowsky came out and it seems the some programs wrongly hard code my home directory when being compiled for instance dude python dude strings usr bin gentoo grep dude home dude dude python dude strings usr bin xine grep dude home dude redhat tmp xine root usr share locale these should probably be considered bugs in the program s build process especially for xine look at that i ll report them upstream if when i have some time this is a standard trap for people building things from source it s generally wise to have a special build environment to avoid these hassles most likely you have some library loading path in your env an strace of the app will show it the app NUMBER NUMBER grep dude personally i have a script called logbuild whose entire purpose is to start a shell with a minimal build environment logged with script the prevents this kind of error since configure yanks all sorts of ill documented values from one s environment for use in the build cc arch various ld_ variables this kind of thing is necessary often the easiest thing is to have a special nonroot account with no profile for building stuff cheers cameron simpson dod NUMBER cs URL URL do not taunt happy fun coder _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 