I've got a nasty program I'm trying to package for Fedora. To cut a very long story short, this C/C++ mixed program started out on Windows and makes lots of 32 bit assumptions. So it's compiled with 'gcc -m32'. Expressing the build requirements so it can build on a 64 bit platform is proving troublesome. (It builds fine on i386). First problem is that it uses <gnu/stubs.h> which includes <gnu/stubs-[WORDSIZE].h> (ie. <gnu/stubs-32.h>). That file isn't in glibc-devel.x86_64, but only in glibc-devel.i386. I've expressed that with a file dependency which breaks Fedora packaging guidelines: BuildRequires: /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h The second and much larger problem is that the code uses wxGTK-devel, and (because it's being compiled with gcc -m32) it has to have the 32 bit version. This should work (on x86-64 at least, not ppc64): BuildRequires: wxGTK-devel.i386 but in fact even with the latest version of rpmbuild in Rawhide it doesn't work. So I have to write: BuildRequires: wxGTK-devel which doesn't express the dependency correctly, or: BuildRequires: /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so which doesn't work on platforms which don't have the lib/lib64 split. Any ideas? I'm sure others must have hit this problem before ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
