Build system bug?

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:19 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:08 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> > I just got a build failure trying to build octave-forge: 
> > http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs//development/329-octave-forge-2005.06.13-2.fc5/
> > 
> > Two of the build dependencies were just barely built in the system, and 
> > it appears that when it tried to import those two packages into the 
> > build environment, it tried to take them from x86_64 instead of i386, 
> > causing it to fail. I'll try again after the other packages are 
> > released, but I thought I'd at least report this. I can file a bug, but 
> > I don't know whether this is a problem with mock or the build system.
> 
> it's a little bit of a problem with both but I think it's mostly a
> config problem.
> 
> Jeremy,
>  Once you remove the /etc/rpm/platform files could you email this list
> and tell Quentin to resubmit Octave-forge?
> 
> let's see if that dtrt.

I had exactly the same problem -- a build of opendap succeeded so I
submitted a build request for nco and it failed with an error that
indicated that it tried to pull in the opendap x86_64 packages for the
i386 nco build.

So I re-submitted the nco build request and it worked -- thanks!

Ed

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