Re: default rpm macros cause errors with g77

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:

> John Pye wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a package which I'm trying to build using RPM. It uses  
> > all the
> > standard GNU autotools so I thought I'd try using %configure macro. I
> > discovered that this macro includes some lines that, amongst other
> > things, sets:
> >
> > FFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -m32
> > -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
> >
> > This then gives an error later in the ./configure execution,  
> > including
> > that g77 says that "-mtune=pentium4" is an invalid option.
>
> > This is with RPM 4.4.1 on FC4 and RPM 4.4.2 on FC5.
>
> This is a fedora-specific issue (in particular, redhat-rpm-config),  
> and
> should be reported there:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
> against Fedora Core/redhat-rpm-config

But make sure that you report against all relevant "Fedora Core"  
versions,
at least "fc4" and "fc5" and "fc6", to insure that bug gets properly  
fixed.

Hint: Harried, overworked, developer salary increases are often based  
on the bogus metric
of no. of bugzilla bugs fixed. Really ...

73 de Jeff