Eclipse EMF build failures on ppc64 hosts

[Tony Breeds]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:56:31PM +0000, Mat Booth wrote:

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> And the error message on ppc64 builds is the following:
> 
>     /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5hAGBF: line 31:
> /usr/lib/eclipse/buildscripts/pdebuild: No such file or directory
> 
> Now, I could be wrong, but it looks to me like the RPM macro
> %{_libdir} is expanding incorrectly on ppc64 hosts. (Surely it should
> expand to /usr/lib64!) Is this a bug? If so, what component should I
> raise the ticket for in Bugzilla?

I don't know about raising a ticket in bugzilla, but yes _libdir /should/ be
'/usr/lib64' AFAIK

ny at mango ~]$ uname -a
Linux mango.ozlabs.ibm.com 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.ppc64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:46:31 EST 2008 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
[tony at mango ~]$ setarch ppc   rpmbuild --showrc | egrep  ': _libdir'
-14: _libdir	%{_prefix}/lib
[tony at mango ~]$ setarch ppc64 rpmbuild --showrc | egrep  ': _libdir'
-14: _libdir	%{_prefix}/lib64


Yours Tony