Fedora 15 ppc

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:56:28PM +0100, Karsten Hopp wrote:
>> That's great news! Obviously I don't need to ask you if you think we should skip F-14.
>> I was planning to start a F-14 rebuild this week, but will put that on hold for now.
>> To be honest, I won't mind skipping F-14 so that there's more time
>> getting it in shape for F-15.
>
> I thought that it would not make much sense to build F-14 right now. If
> we get it rebuilt than it is probably already F-15 release time.
>
> Another question I have concerning building gcc. In the spec it has
> following lines:
>
> %ifarch %{multilib_64_archs} sparcv9 ppc
> # Ensure glibc{,-devel} is installed for both multilib arches
> BuildRequires: /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc.so /lib64/libc.so.6 /usr/lib64/libc.so
> %endif
>
> I am building everything with mock and mock seems to refuse to install
> glibc-devel.ppc64 (which would resolve /usr/lib64/libc.so), although it
> is is in my repo and using yum to manually install it into the mock
> chroot works. Just the automatic dependency resolve process of yum
> inside of mock refuses to install glibc-devel.ppc64. I have the same
> problem with the 32bit versions if I try to build gcc for ppc64.
>
> So, it works manually but not automatically. Does anyone if that is
> intended behaviour for mock? How is this solved inside of Fedora's koji?
> Or is it just a bug in the spec file?

There are special glibc32/glibc64 packages that are used in koji that
provide the other-bitsize bits.  They're just in the -build tag
explicitly in koji and not shipped with the distribution.  It's been
that way forever.

josh