[Fedora-packaging] Small change to Beware of RPath

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Oct 6 00:58:09 UTC 2009


On 10/03/2009 01:37 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> fabiand on IRC let me know that there's a minor change that could be
> made to the Beware of RPath section of the Guidelines to make things
> easier for packagers:
> 
> [10:23:07] <fabiand> regarding an wiki page i can not edit:
> packaging:guidelines#beware_of_rpath
> [10:23:57] <fabiand> it should be recommended to use %{_arch} not using
> 32 or 64 as a suffix for files in /etc/ld.so.conf, because it is easy to
> use %{a_arch} but not easy to get 64 or 32

That's not true. %{__isa_bits} will return either 32 or 64, depending on
the platform arch.

~spot





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