Re: Mass rebuild, noarch and binary files

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 2009-02-27 at 11:00:24 -0500, Thibault North
> <thibault north gmail com> wrote:
> > I've been notified that avr-libc rebuild for F11 failed, and Koji says that it 
> > is because this noarch package contains binary  (error: Arch dependent 
> > binaries in noarch package)
> >
> > This is a normal behaviour, as avr-libc provides precompiled libraries for avr 
> > microcontrolers, which are external devices.
>
> Is avr-libc really noarch?

Yes, it is. These are foreign libs.

> Isn't this a cross-compiled version of libc?
No, avr-libc is something completely of its own.

> And can't we build those precompiled libraries from source using the
> existing cross toolchain?
These are foreign binaries whose toolchain doesn't support/apply build-ids.


Ralf