New redhat-rpm-config for ac3

[Oliver Falk]

Am 2007-03-14 11:29, Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> Mike Barnes wrote:
> 
>> On 14/03/2007, at 8:13 PM, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe you can add some statement on how to fix it in core-cvs  
>>> without conflicting with the primary archs; I saw you just removed  
>>> it from macros...
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I just patched it out for the moment, pending a better solution.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure that dropping it from macros is actually the  
>> right approach, since in theory it shouldn't make any difference if  
>> it's there or not. The actual problem I was seeing was that in some  
>> autoconf scripts, the test for a working -fPIC was failing - this was  
>> what was causing build failures in a lot of packages.
> 
> That is stange. In my experience it just said that is does nothing on 
> alpha, but never stopped configure scripts. I commented out it in macros 
> too during package building.

Sergey, just mailed Mike off-list, same story... It sometimes happens 
that it stops builds. See elfutils for example. Elfutils sets warnings 
as errors and therfor breaks. However, I believe I saw builds where with 
a disabled fsp it worked and enabling it, it failed... But that's 
already a year ago or so...

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