Re: rpmbuild for PPC sticks libs in /usr/lib64

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > (I've put gnumeric aside for a bit.)
> >
> > I tried to build Axel Thimm's f2c RPM for PPC using:
> >
> >     rpmbuild -bb --target ppc f2c-20031026-2.el4.at.spec
> >
> > (after fixing a minor spec file issue).  When it finishes building on my 
> > PPC64 system, it installs the libraries it built into /usr/lib64 instead of 
> > /usr/lib.  Of course, as these are 32-bit libraries, it wreaks havoc with 
> > the linker when it looks for libf2c.a.
> >
> > Target ppc is definitely 32 bits, so what is causing _libdir to be set to 
> > /usr/lib64?  Is it a bug?  (Nothing that appears relevant is set in the 
> > spec file or in my .rpmmacros file.)
>
> what do you have in /etc/rpm/platform ? might be worth looking there to see 
> what rpm's picking up ( hint: rpm --showrc )

Hmm.  /etc/rpm/platform has ppc64pseries-redhat-linux.

rpm --showrc shows:

    ARCHITECTURE AND OS:
    build arch            : ppc64
    compatible build archs: ppc64pseries ppc64 noarch
    build os              : Linux
    compatible build os's : linux
    install arch          : ppc64pseries
    install os            : Linux
    compatible archs      : ppc64pseries ppc64 ppc rs6000 noarch
    compatible os's       : linux

and later (sure enough):

    -14: _lib       lib64
    -14: _libdir    %{_exec_prefix}/%{_lib}

So the next question is, how to fix so that _lib depends on the target or 
what to use instead that will depend on the target?

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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