[Fedora-ia64-list] updated Fedora 8 ia64 iso available

[Doug Chapman]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:45 -0400, Doug Chapman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 17:52 +0800, Zhan, Yi wrote:
> > > I plan on writing up how I have been building this and posting it to the
> > > list along with the scripts I have written.  I am still figuring most of
> > > it out so the process is mostly manual at this point.  Hopefully I can
> > > send something out later today.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks Doug. I really appreciate that :-) I also wrote some scripts to
> > help the build, but still have too manual work to do when I aim to build
> > a specified package. Build all the 4000+ packages may consume too much
> > time ... 
> > 
> > > I have run into several packages that have build errors so I really do
> > > want to make sure others can do builds so we have more people trying to
> > > fix those packages.  The most concerning for me I think is elilo, it
> > > fails to build under Fedora so I had to build the rpm under RHEL5.1
> > > where it does build cleanly.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have a try to build the elilo under Fedora 7.92 today and finally be
> > able to figure out what's the problem :-) A link to /usr/lib/libz is
> > missing when compile /<efibootmgr-0.5.3_path>/src/efibootmgr/efibootmgr.
> > So we encounter the issues about "undefined reference to `gzopen'" and
> > alike. Add a '-lz' to "efibootmgr-0.5.3/src/efibootmgr/module.mk"'s LIBS
> > variable can fix it. I put the patch in the end of this email.
> > 
> > Now I have my second question. What should I do when I have a package
> > fixed? 
> > 
> 
> Thanks for looking at this!  What you should do is file a bugzilla at
> bugzilla.redhat.com:
> 
> 	- Select the Fedora project from the first page
> 	- for the "version" pulldown menu select "devel"
> 	- in the "Blocks" field enter "fedora-ia64" so we can track this
> 	as one of the issues that blocks us.
> 	- other than that do the same things you would normally do
> 	while you file a bugzilla
> 
> - Doug
> 
> 

One last thing... please add me (dchapman at redhat.com) to the cc list on
the new bugzilla.

thanks,

- Doug