Re: buildreq and arch

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:57, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:22:55PM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> > > Is there a way to specify the architecture of a buildreq package?
> > >
> > > Example:  One the amd64 (x86_64), building gcc requires the glibc-devel
> > > package for the i686 architecture also be installed (besides the x86_64
> > > package) in order to actually build gcc.  Is there a way to specify this?
> >
> > %ifarch x86_64
> > BuildRequire: glibc-devel
> > %endif
> 
> Yes but ... the glibc-devel...x86_64.rpm package is already installed.  gcc 
> needs both the x86_64 AND the i686 glibc-devel packages installed to build 
> properly.  This may be the only situation that would need packages from two 
> different platforms to perform the build.
> 

Then either specify a file path that is only in the x96_64 glibc-devel
package, or, equivalently, specify some other provides that is
only in the x86_64 devel package.

No it's not the only situration.

73 de Jeff

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