Re: src.rpm for x86_64

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 16:18, Carl Nygard wrote:
> One more time...
>
> Now that I browsed through the /usr/lib/rpm/x86_64-linux/macros file, I
> see the following definition:
>
> %__os_install_post    \
>     /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress \
>     /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip \
>     /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive \
>     /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note \
> %{nil}
>                                                                                 
> This tell me where the brp-compress is coming from.  It also indicates
> that it's probably not so bad to hardcode the path to brp-compress,
> since that's hardcoded in the ./rpm/<platform>-linux/macros file.
>
> So I propose the following patch instead:
>
> -[ -x %{_libdir}/rpm/brp-compress ] && %{_libdir}/rpm/brp-compress
> +[ -x /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress ] && /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
>
> This seems to work on x86_64, and I'd assume it works on i386, since the
> path is hardcoded in ./rpm/i[3456]86-linux/macros as well.

have you looked at any of the spec files for working perl srpms on
x68_64. i'm looking around for what other (official) fedora rpms are
doing and found this:

[ -x /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress ] && /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress

looks familiar, huh? the same rpm is in their i386 and x86_64 dirs. i'm
going to look around a bit more and see what else is different in there
and then make the changes throughout our trees. i don't think these will
be worth doing a set of rels for, but i might be talked into doing .2
rpms.

> If you want me to generate real patches for all the spec.in files, I can
> do that as well.  But I'm betting they will all be the same boilerplate
> fix.

that shouldn't be necessary, but i want to be careful with whatever fix
we end up doing. i want to do a bit more investigation before we go
through and fix them all.

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