On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:10 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:04:18PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > What does this rpmlint message mean? I don't understand why it's harmful > > to have patches only applying to particular architectures. > > > > ----- > > > > ical.src: W: %ifarch-applied-patch Patch3: ical-2.2-ia64.patch > > A patch is applied inside an %ifarch block. Patches must be applied > > on all architectures and may contain necessary configure and/or code > > patch to be effective only on a given arch. > > > > ----- > > It likely means that you have a construct like this in a spec file: > > %ifarch x86_64 > Patch1: some.patch > %endif Besides this, this patch seems rather silly to me. Instead of trying to mess around with local defs of gethostname(), you should probably better "#include <unistd.h>". Ralf PS.: __linux__ is the correct (POSIX-compliant) define to identify linux. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
