New problems building MythTV-0.27 for el6 (solved?)

[John Pilkington]

On 07/12/13 11:21, John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi:  I have MythTV Version v0.27-109-gcb744f8 under F18 x86_64 working
> well - thanks, Richard - and have tried to rebuild it for my laptop
> running Scientific Linux 6 with extras.  I've given details earlier of
> the repos I needed for that, and it's been running well with a build I
> did using a slightly modified rpmfusion specfile and the git tarball
> about 3 weeks ago.  Before that, rpmbuild --rebuild had succeeded under
> SL6 using the F18 SRPM.
>
> Now, rpmbuild --rebuild mythtv-0.27-3.fc18.src.rpm fails, probably
> because its BUILDROOT folder is mythtv-0.27-3.fc18.i386.  This happens
> even if I rename the srpm to mythtv-0.27-3.el6.src.rpm   I don't know
> where the fc18 tag is coming from, but it appears in the definition of
> RPM_BUILD_ROOT in config.ep

< snip stuff about mock, which was probably misconfigured >
>
> All rather puzzling.  I'll perhaps try a new rebuild from git tarball.
>

Initial attempts with that failed too, perhaps because I didn't clear 
out all the old rpmbuild folders properly.   I made small changes in the 
specfile, and the updated MythTV is running now.