Translations:Documents/How to/Build from source/17/en

Building the RPM packages takes place in a directory with a special structure that is usually created when installing the appropriate distribution package (as "rpm-build"). This directory, depending on the distribution, is located in the user's home directory or in the "/usr/src" directory. Known facts of location of the directory RPMBuildDir of RPM Packages of different distributions:

• "~/rpmbuild" — RedHat, CentOS, Mandriva, Fedora
• "/usr/src/packages" — SuSE
• "~/RPM" — ALTLinux