No maven2 on PPC64: wait or workaround?

Jerry James loganjerry at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 18:36:10 UTC 2008


I just tried to build a newly approved package, jsr-305, only to have
it fail on PPC64.  The failure is because the build uses maven2, which
does not exist on the PPC64 architecture.

First, there is no FE-ExcludeArch-ppc64 bug that I can find that
mentions maven2.  Shouldn't there be?

Second, should I work around this problem?  It would be easy to invoke
javac directly for this small package.  On the other hand, if I have
to hack up the .spec file to support building with maven when it
exists and support direct javac invocation when it doesn't ... that
.spec file is going to become pretty ugly, and possibly fragile.  If I
should not work around the problem, then I should really file a
blocker bug that blocks on [insert # of maven2 blocker bug here],
which doesn't exist, right?

Thanks for any advice,
-- 
Jerry James
http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/




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