On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, John Cavan wrote:
> Sheesh, people are going to associate me with QA work, and I'm a
> developer... ;o)
>
> Anyways, I found a few more things...
>
> 1) ExclusiveArchs for lother-etherconfig and ltrace prevent K6 (and a
> few other x86 flavours).
You should wait for/bug Dadou, pretty sure K6 is built
> 2) nist-0.6-2 requires nasm to build, but nasm is not a part of the main
> distro... downloaded the source and built it myself, but maybe it should
> be included? It's useful, some of the console game emulators use it.
it's in contrib/
> 3) pmake problem:
this seems intentional :/
> cp $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/pmake-sys-${RPM_ARCH}.mk lib/mk/sys-%{_arch}.mk
>
> will copy pmake-sys-i386.mk to lib/mk/sys-i386.mk and not to sys-i586.mk
> which pmake will look for later in the build. I would think that this is
> a little backwards...
>
> cp $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/pmake-sys-%{_arch}.mk lib/mk/sys-%{_target_cpu}.mk
>
> Probably require a test for k6 so that the file gets copied to
> sys-i586.mk since nothing seems to be able to say that the k6 is the
> current cpu... I've gotta figure out how to change that. :o)
>
> 4) util-linux calls:
seems someone forgot to check for changes, make sure you test that before
you need it after optimizing it's kinda notorious for breaking. :)
> make "RPM_OPT_FLAGS=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
>
> when it should be calling:
>
> make "OPT=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
>
> That will correctly pass the optimization flags to the compiler,
> otherwise it's 486 city...
>
>
> later,
> John
>
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