Did the "uname" change on ppc64 in Rawhide?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed May 21 10:46:05 UTC 2008
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:40 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>>> I'm trying to figure out why a package that built for F8 and F9 failed
>>> on Rawhide. Here are the logs for the failed Rawhide bid:
>
>>> Any suggestions what's going on here?
>> Dunno, but I came across this yesterday too. A package that built
>> everywhere apart from ppc64 (and had built previously on F9) failed on
>> ppc64:
>
> The culprit is upstreams shipping outdated config.guess/config.sub's.
>
> AFAICT, until recently, rpmbuild replaced config.guess/config.sub during
> builts, and now has been changed to use the original files upstreams
> ship.
Thanks for the info. I see the history behind this in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/211069 and understand why it was done. It's
easily enough fixed for ppc64 in my (ancient) package, though I suspect
I'm going to need to fix it again for the various secondary
architectures at some point.
Paul.
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