On 07/06/2010 01:50 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> James Antill added this text re: when Requires should *not* be
> arch-specific:
>
> A package has a Build-Requires on a specific arch. library
> (because rpmbuild evaluates the %{_isa} at .src.rpm buildtime,
> and not at .src.rpm => .arch.rpm build time).
>
> I don't understand what this is saying. Can anyone put this in more
> lucid terms?
Lets say you have BuildRequires: foo%{?_isa}. Koji makes the SRPM on a
ppc builder, so %{_isa} is evaluated as (ppc-32). The SRPM is then
handed to an x86_64 builder to build for x86_64, but it cannot meet the
BuildRequires because foo(ppc-32) is not found.
~spot
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