Did the "uname" change on ppc64 in Rawhide?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:40 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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:

> > Any suggestions what's going on here?
> 
> Dunno, but I came across this yesterday too. A package that built 
> everywhere apart from ppc64 (and had built previously on F9) failed on 
> ppc64:

The culprit is upstreams shipping outdated config.guess/config.sub's.

AFAICT, until recently, rpmbuild replaced config.guess/config.sub during
builts, and now has been changed to use the original files upstreams
ship.

Ralf