On Friday 17 March 2006 10:56, Axel Thimm wrote: > while putting together these src.rpms under one folder was a good > thing, it uncovers an issue with conditional and macro-dependent > BuildRequires, i.e. they become static and reveal the arch in nasty > ways. > > For instance the current gcc src.rpm as it will be shipped with FC5 > will only install (aka extract) on x86_64 systems. Other archs will > need to use --nodeps. > > Not something one can really fix, not even really work around it in a > clean fashion, but I'd rather give a heads-up to such ugly beasts. :/
Eww, indeed that is a side effect I was not aware of. I'm going to have to think on this one for a bit and get some other folks to think about it as well. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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