On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:30 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why a package that built for F8 and F9 failed > on Rawhide. Here are the logs for the failed Rawhide bid: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=622220 > > In this build, "configure" dies with: > checking build system type... > Invalid configuration `ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu': machine > `ppc64-redhat' not recognized > configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu failed > > Whereas on F8 and F9 on PPC64, building the identical SRPM works fine > (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=622181 and > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=622176) and the > corresponding output from "configure" in both cases is: > checking build system type... > powerpc64-redhat-linux-gnu > [ ... continue configuring ... ] > > Any suggestions what's going on here? Wild guess: Very likely, the package you are trying to build is shipping a very outdated "config.guess" and/or which doesn't recognize the triplet (Read: Outdated upstream sources) Either replace (patch) the versions of config.guess/config.sub inside of the tarball with more recent ones, or (better) convince upstream to update their config.guess/config.sub. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
