Building RPMs from the distribution tarball fails on CentOS7 if you've used rpmdev-setuptree to setup your rpmbuild directory structure. This seems to be caused by the added rpath check that rpmdev-setuptree introduces via ~/.rpmmacros cat ~/.rpmmacros .... %__arch_install_post \ [ "%{buildarch}" = "noarch" ] || QA_CHECK_RPATHS=1 ; \ case "${QA_CHECK_RPATHS:-}" in [1yY]*) /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths ;; esac \ /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot This is obviously easy to work around, but could perhaps be a security issue if someone happened to install SLURM in just the right place and had a very creative user. rpmbuild -ta -D '%_with_mysql 1' -D '%_with_lua 1' -D '%_with_hwloc 1' slurm-15.08.7.tar.bz2 .... ERROR 0001: file '/usr/lib64/slurm/auth_munge.so' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/lib64/slurm/crypto_munge.so' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ▽ ERROR 0001: file '/usr/lib64/slurm/mpi_mvapich.so' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/lib64/slurm/slurmctld_nonstop.so' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0004: file '/usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Slurm/Slurm.so' contains an insecure rpath '../../../../src/api/.libs' in [../../../../src/api/.libs:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Slurm/Slurm.so' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [../../../../src/api/.libs:/usr/lib] ERROR 0004: file '/usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Slurmdb/Slurmdb.so' contains an insecure rpath '../../../../src/db_api/.libs' in [../../../../src/db_api/.libs:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Slurmdb/Slurmdb.so' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [../../../../src/db_api/.libs:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/sbin/slurmd' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/sbin/slurmstepd' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.JR7RBJ (%install) This is also reproducible on several older releases. If it matters: cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) rpm -qa | grep rpmdev rpmdevtools-8.3-5.el7.noarch
The same for me on RHEL6
Updating description and component fields, and reclassifying as an enhancement request.