[SciPy-Dev] Building rpms

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Nils Wagner
<nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to build rpms from numpy and scipy.
>
> It failed with
>
> tar -cf dist/numpy-2.0.0.dev8460.tar numpy-2.0.0.dev8460
> gzip -f9 dist/numpy-2.0.0.dev8460.tar
> removing 'numpy-2.0.0.dev8460' (and everything under it)
> copying dist/numpy-2.0.0.dev8460.tar.gz ->
> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SOURCES
> building RPMs
> rpm -ba --define _topdir
> /data/home/nwagner/svn/numpy/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm
> --clean build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/numpy.spec
> -ba: unknown option

-ba should be an option for rpmbuild, not rpm. I don't know why
distutils calls rpm here,

David