On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:57 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57843: line 58: fg: no job control > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57843 (%build) I've seen this error most often when using rpm specs built for a different system (e.g., Mandriva or Suse). It's often caused by a missing macro definition in the specfile. Can you post the specfile?