[ewg] RFC: OFED-1.3-20070823-1130 - first build

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon Aug 27 23:02:45 PDT 2007


Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 16:11 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
>> OK, it's a bug in the rpm packaging.  In particular, /var/lib/rpm/macros
>> has the base settings for rpm when building.  Then, for arch specific
>> settings, there is /var/lib/rpm/linux-%{arch}/macros.  RPM *should* also
>> have a /var/lib/rpm/linux-%{secondary_arch}/macros file to override the
>> settings that the default arch uses.  I don't see this internally since
>> we build on the arch we are building for, but it exists none the less.
>> I'll file a bug against our rpm package about this.  Were you trying
>> this on RHEL4 or RHEL5 or something else?
> 
> I should reread things before hitting send.  That should be /usr/lib/rpm
> and it's arch-linux not linux-arch.
> 

I tried this on both RHEL4 and RHEL5.

- Vladimir



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