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When trying to build an rpm for apr-utils on my CentOS 6.2 box I got a nasty error when the rpm was running test:

testmemcache : |/bin/sh: line 2: 14322 Segmentation fault LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”`echo “../crypto/.libs:../dbm/.lib s:../dbd/.libs:../ldap/.libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH” | sed -e ‘s/::*$//’`” ./$prog
Programs failed: testall
make: *** [check] Error 139
+ exit 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.OQddG8 (%check)

This relates to this bug: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52705

Thanks to Peter Poeml for releasing a patch for this, which I’ve put into an updated apr-util.spec

I have been building a lot of custom RPMs lately and I found this great resource which lists all of the macros that can be used in the spec files and what they equate to.

http://www.zarb.org/~jasonc/macros.php

I recently changed to using the unix command line for cvs and changed all my cvs roots to :ext: instead of :ssh: (tortoise prefers ssh).

When I made the change, anytime I updated cvs I got this error:

/CVSROOTccess /cvsroot
No such file or directory

This makes no sense. Luckily, after searching around I found this is a problem with DOS line breaks screwing with unix cvs. Running the following fixes the problem:

dos2unix `find . -name Root`
dos2unix `find . -name Entries`
dos2unix `find . -name Repository`