On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:46 -0400, Rob West wrote: > Jeff Johnson kindly answered my question off-line. It seems that I > needed to install the redhat-rpm-config RPM, which overrides > find-lang.sh. ... > On 6/20/07, Rob West <robertfwest at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build the coreutils binary RPM from the CentOS > 5.0 source RPM using: > > sudo rpmbuild --rebuild coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5.src.rpm You should consider building RPMs as a normal user. Building as root is dangerous. See: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM "Get set up for rebuilding packages while not being root" Phil