Re: [Bug-gnubg] Installing gnubg in my own directory

[Timothy Y. Chow]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Michael Petch wrote:
> This should help you:
> 
> http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-anywhere-different-build-area.html
> 
> You may get errors building with that rpm. I'd probably recommend
> downloading a latest snapshot or retrieve the latest from CVS.

Thanks for the tip; however, I'm still having problems.  That page 
suggests that I create a .rpmrc file with a line like

topdir: /u/tchow/mysubdirectory

in it.  But when I do that, I get an error:

% rpmbuild --rebuild gnubg.rpm
error: bad option 'topdir' at /u/tchow/.rpmrc:1
Installing gnubg.rpm
error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
error: gnubg.rpm cannot be installed

I'm using RPM version 4.3.3; has there been a change in syntax or 
something?

Tim