Eclipse EMF build failures on ppc64 hosts

[Mat Booth]

2009/3/6 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 19:56 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> We looked into this a bit today, and it appears to be a shortfall in
> mock, or rpm(build) that is triggered by koji.  When koji builds
> something for noarch, it explicitly passes --target noarch.  This
> overwrites some settings in mock for the rpmbuild arch and in the ppc64
> case, rpm defaults to ppc, and libdir is wrong.  If koji didn't pass
> --target, then the default arch for the config would be used and all is
> happy.  We're not entirely certain where the real bug lies, but we have
> a couple possible work arounds, and we'll be discussing with rpm folks
> tomorrow.
>

Thanks for the feedback, Jesse. Much appreciated.

You've probably seen me raise a rel-eng ticket about this already so
the problem doesn't get forgotten.

In the meantime, I've hammered away of the resubmit button in Koji and
my package has now built successfully.


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Mat Booth
www.matbooth.co.uk