ClearSilver (from Extras) on PPC?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 
>>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Has anyone built the clearsilver-0.10.2-2.fc4.src.rpm from Extras for PPC 
>>>> or PPC64?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I guess there was good reason that FE didn't include a PPC build... (-:
>> 
>> 
>> Well, sure there's 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/ppc/clearsilver-0.10.2-2.fc4.ppc.rpm. 
>> 
>> But it seems as though I ought to be able to duplicate the feat.  The 
>> destination is a RHEL4 PPC64 system, so I'm concerned about dependencies.
>
> My apologies, I didn't read far enough to see you were trying to rebuild for 
> RHEL4.  (Wow, I didn't there even was a rhel4 build for ppc, cool!).

No problem.  It is pretty cool: 32-node IBM OpenPower with dual-core P5s 
running RHAS4 (or Suse).  I'd like to put Trac on it for our user group, 
but the ClearSilver issue is a showstopper.  (Annoyingly, python-sqlite 
also has issues due to conflicts between PPC and PPC64 packages.  There 
must be something in multilib packages to allow conflicting binaries in 
32-bit and 64-bit versions to resolve their differences peacefully.)

It's hard to know whom to complain to.  Is it a packaging issue (Dag and 
Extras exhibit the same symptoms, but neither is specifically designed for 
PPC64) or upstream?

>
> -- Rex
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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