On 04/18/2011 06:15 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> in which file is the %prep script defined? > > Defined in the spec file. You're right. Actually I'm trying to figure out where these lines originate from Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86989 + umask 022 + cd /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG The setting of LANG messes up my build, which relies on Utf8.