New redhat-rpm-config for ac3

[Sergey Tikhonov]

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.

>
> I'll try to follow through the configure tests and narrow it down a  
> little further. If it's the case that the -fstack-protector flag  
> should do _nothing_ on an unsupported architecture, and it's doing  
> _something_, then it really strikes me as a GCC bug, not something to  
> fix in the RPM macros, which ideally should be consistent across  
> architectures.

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov

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