Did the "uname" change on ppc64 in Rawhide?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed May 21 09:44:42 UTC 2008


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:30 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out why a package that built for F8 and F9 failed
>> on Rawhide. Here are the logs for the failed Rawhide bid:
>>
>>     http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=622220
>>
>> In this build, "configure" dies with:
>>     checking build system type...
>>     Invalid configuration `ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu': machine
>> `ppc64-redhat' not recognized
>>     configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu failed
>>
>> Whereas on F8 and F9 on PPC64, building the identical SRPM works fine
>> (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=622181 and
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=622176) and the
>> corresponding output from "configure" in both cases is:
>>     checking build system type...
>>     powerpc64-redhat-linux-gnu
>>     [ ... continue configuring ... ]
>>
>> Any suggestions what's going on here?
> 
> Wild guess: Very likely, the package you are trying to build is shipping
> a very outdated "config.guess" and/or which doesn't recognize the
> triplet (Read: Outdated upstream sources)
> 
> Either replace (patch) the versions of config.guess/config.sub inside of
> the tarball with more recent ones, or (better) convince upstream to
> update their config.guess/config.sub.

Ah, I see. I guess I'll have to do it myself then since there is no 
active upstream for my compat-type package.

Paul.




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