On 26 Oct 2016 6:17 pm, "Frank Cox" <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:07:43 -0400 > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > I'm trying to build it in /root/rpmbuild. > > Don't do that. Install rpmdevtools so you build it under your home directory and avoid blowing up your system if there's an error. > First of all read up on how to properly build an RPM: https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/11 Since this is python look up the Fedora python guidelines and follow those. Here's the spec for a recent python library I packaged: https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/python-ntlm3.git/tree/python-ntlm3.spec If you don't need python3 you can strip that stuff out ... The Fedora python guidelines have a decent spec template you can crib, keep in mind the el6 caveats if you need to build for that with regards to macro definitions