Eclipse EMF build failures on ppc64 hosts

[Mat Booth]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Mat Booth <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
> I've updated eclipse-emf and I'm trying to build it, but it seems to
> fail if the build host arch is ppc64. By chance, all the scratch
> builds I've submitted were built on i586 hosts and they have all
> worked perfectly. By chance, all the real builds I've submitted were
> built on ppc64 hosts and they all fail with the same error.
>
> Scratch builds succeeding on i586:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1210426
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1211516
>
> Real builds failing on ppc64:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1210476
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1210708
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1211494
>
> The spec file[1] contains the following lines:
>
>    %define eclipse_base     %{_libdir}/eclipse
>    %{eclipse_base}/buildscripts/pdebuild -f org.eclipse.emf.all \
>      -a "-DjavacTarget=1.5 -DjavacSource=1.5
> -DforceContextQualifier=v200902171115"
>
> And the error message on ppc64 builds is the following:
>
>    /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5hAGBF: line 31:
> /usr/lib/eclipse/buildscripts/pdebuild: No such file or directory
>
> Now, I could be wrong, but it looks to me like the RPM macro
> %{_libdir} is expanding incorrectly on ppc64 hosts. (Surely it should
> expand to /usr/lib64!) Is this a bug? If so, what component should I
> raise the ticket for in Bugzilla?
>
> [1]http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/eclipse-emf/devel/eclipse-emf.spec?revision=1.12
>
> --
> Mat Booth
> www.matbooth.co.uk
>


No-one has any ideas at all? Should I just keep resubmitting the build
until Koji chooses to build it on a non-pp64 build host?

-- 
Mat Booth
www.matbooth.co.uk