For various reasons some platforms require 32 bit product which is typically built on 64 bit machines.
This causes problems when the build tools rely on uname which returns for example on my machine sparc64 but I need build as if it was sparc. An example is reported at Issue 48613 relating to berkeleydb. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48163 The best solution appears to be building inside a shell that returns the desired result from uname. On linux sparc debian this would be achieved by building in a shell such as: $ sparc32 bash or more generally, $ linux32 bash Then uname will return sparc instead of sparc32. I have tried to avoid this up to now but it seems it might be the correct way. This issue for building generally is discussed at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251149 I would be interested to get comments from other builders, maybe others do this already? thanks jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
