Re: src.rpm for x86_64

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 08:44, Ross McFarland wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:56, Carl Nygard wrote:
> > Hoi,
> >
> > I got the perl-Gtk2 srpms from freshrpms, and I'm having trouble
> > building on x86_64.  Specifically, the man pages seem all gzip'd, but
> > the spec file is expecting them as *.3pm files.
> >
> > Any clues?  Do I need to upgrade/update?
>
> there's nothing in the spec files that requests particular formats or
> extensions for the man pages. the file lists are auto-generated by
> rpm/perl and therefore i suspect that's where the problems lies (with
> rpm/perl on x86_64.) i'd be more than happy to track the problem down if
> i had a x86_64 system (donations welcome, heh) on which to do it.
>
> can you build Gtk2 on that system from source (not rpm) on that system?
> are the freshrpm rpms my original rpms or someone else's pkg-ing?

Here's the relevant part of the rpm output (from make dist-rpms)
Commentary inline:

+ '[' -x /usr/lib64/rpm/brp-compress ']'
        ## looking for the brp-compress script, 
        ## but %{_libdir}=/usr/lib64 on x86_64, see below:
+ echo libdir= /usr/lib64
libdir= /usr/lib64
+ find /var/tmp/perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.204-1-root/usr -type f -print
+ sed 's ^/var/tmp/perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.204-1-root@@g'
++ cat perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.204-1-filelist
       ## So the find | sed > filelist only finds uncompressed *.3pm
+ '[' '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/ExtUtils/Depends.pm
/usr/share/man/man3/ExtUtils::Depends.3pmX' = X ']'
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /home/mwsadm/rpms/BUILD/ExtUtils-Depends-0.204
0 blocks
find: /var/tmp/perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.204-1-root/usr/lib/debug: No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
        ## And now we successfully find brp-compress,
        ## which changes the files from what we know in the filelist
        ## This must be inherent in the rpm binary, I don't see it
        ## in the generated .spec file
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
Processing files: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.204-1
error: File not found: /var/tmp/perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.204-1-root/usr/share/man/man3/ExtUtils::Depends.3pm

Finally found the docs where the macros are defined (that was way too
hard).

The only thing I can come up with is to do this:

-[ -x %{_libdir}/rpm/brp-compress ] && %{_libdir}/rpm/brp-compress
+[ -x %{_prefix}/%{_lib}/rpm/brp-compress ] && %{_prefix}/%{_lib}/rpm/brp-compress

This "fix" is probably consistent throughout the .spec.in files.  Once
we agree on the fix I can make the changes and test on i386 and x86_64
for you.

I really wish they had a macro for %{_librpmdir}, or even macros for the
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-* scripts or something

I think there's something wrong with using brp-compress behind your back
when it changes filenames on you.  That's either a bug or my complete
ignorance.

Your prompt attention is much appreciated;)

Regards,
Carl