Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-20 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 at 15:29:39 GMT, Michael Schwendt wrote: One problem with that is, one cannot blindly run autoreconf -fi and expect it to be 100% compatible with the multitude of Autotools' based projects. Typically one will need to update the configure script, m4 macros as well as

RE: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Masters
and their upstream) is good. Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -Original Message- From: Ben Boeckel [maths...@gmail.com] Received: Thursday, 20 Jun 2013, 7:53 To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-20 Thread Alec Leamas
and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276) On Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 at 15:29:39 GMT, Michael Schwendt wrote: One problem with that is, one cannot blindly run autoreconf -fi and expect it to be 100% compatible with the multitude

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:37:19 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: Let me be more specific: * If upstream uses a modern autotools, than autoreconf should be preferred (IMO). * If not, we should advise them to modernize (and if we can, try to help them). IIRC, that has been suggested in the many

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Simone Caronni
On 17 June 2013 03:13, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I know if dpkg is now ready for aarch64 ? I've discovered you can trigger builds for the ARM Koji instance with your account: koji

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Dan Horák
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:44:52 +0200 Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2013 03:13, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I know if dpkg is now ready for aarch64 ? I've discovered you can trigger builds for

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Simone Caronni
On 17 June 2013 09:04, Dan Horák d...@danny.cz wrote: the fedora-packager package provides wrappers for the koji command for all secondary architectures in Fedora in the form ${arch}-koji, where arch can be arm, ppc and s390, so you can use arm-koji build --scratch f19 your.src.rpm Oh,

rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 17 June 2013 02:13:06 Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, I'm trying follow this (aarch64 support) but https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257#c1 could/should be closed now, as this is done automatically from % configure, so no need update it anymore ? we had updated dpkg some

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Björn Esser
Am Montag, den 17.06.2013, 11:39 +0300 schrieb Oron Peled: On Monday 17 June 2013 02:13:06 Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, I'm trying follow this (aarch64 support) but https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257#c1 could/should be closed now, as this is done automatically from %

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:04:02 +0200 Dan Horák d...@danny.cz wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:44:52 +0200 Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2013 03:13, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: we had updated dpkg some major

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser bjoern.es...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid lots of possible problems caused by just injecting config.{guess,sub} by

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-06-17 16:43, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser bjoern.es...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid lots of possible problems caused by

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:06 +0200, Björn Esser wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools. One problem with that is, one cannot blindly run autoreconf -fi and expect it to be 100% compatible with the multitude

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't the proper solution then to patch the config files to get rid of the obsolete macros? Such patches should certainly be acceptable upstream. If I have some other reason for needing to touch the configure script, then

Re: rpm and config.{guess,sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 11:39 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: In the Fedora spirit of everything buildable from clean sources, I think the autoreconf solution should be globally adopted (regardless of aarch64): * It doesn't use generated files as input to the build process. * It delegates the

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-06-17 21:17, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't the proper solution then to patch the config files to get rid of the obsolete macros? Such patches should certainly be acceptable upstream. If I have some other reason for

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 08:43 -0600, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser bjoern.es...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid lots of possible

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 16:57 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: On 2013-06-17 16:43, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser bjoern.es...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools.

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 17 June 2013 22:58:53 Alec Leamas wrote: On 2013-06-17 21:17, Jerry James wrote: ... I'd rather not spend the small amount of time I can devote to open source software work messing with a configure script just because somebody thinks they should be able to run autoreconf with a

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 16:57 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: On 2013-06-17 16:43, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser bjoern.es...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools.

[aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-16 Thread Sérgio Basto
Hi, I'm trying follow this (aarch64 support) but https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257#c1 could/should be closed now, as this is done automatically from % configure, so no need update it anymore ? we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I know if dpkg is now

aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a way to actually run test builds? I know that there's ARM support in the works, but I haven't really kept up with the details. -- Jeff Ollie -- devel

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:12:13PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: