When rpm-build package is not installed, \"rpm -ba\" gives \"file not found\" error message which confuses most people. Why, it gives no idea on which file was not found. Thus one has to run strace. --- ---
Another confusing message (when rpmb is not available) is: $ rpm --version -ba existing.spec
It\'s _quite_ confusing: e.g. Vladimir Bormotov got caught by an example too. Well, I was stupid enough a couple of times too.
*** Bug 3505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I look at source code of rpm (4.0.4-alt37) and find this incorrect(?) string in rpmqv.c:630 argerror("--buildroot may only be used during package builds"); may be must be: argerror(_("--buildroot may only be used during package builds")); or I'm not right? May be this solve problem with this confused message...(?)
No, this message is unrelated to the problem.
To more appropriate package.
Fixed in libpopt-1.7-alt12.
