[Clfs-support] CLFS RPM project

[Jonathan Norman]

On 27 Sep 2008, at 17:16, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Jonathan Norman wrote:
>
>> I have made  RPMS for the LFS book and created multi-arch spec  
>> files. The installation of these RPMS onto a blank hard drive is  
>> done with shell scripts. I have not come across a problem doing  
>> multilib because I have made it for i686, UltraSPARC and PowerPC  
>> G4, there for no need for multilib yet. Good luck with it tho :)
>
> Way back when I did it with i386 LFS and msde a cdrom installer  
> using a modified version of the slinky installer from the RULE  
> project - I was thinking of doing a similar thing. Somewhere I  
> still have that modified slinky.
>
> But with respect to the RPMs - I don't want multilib RPMs that  
> contain binaries for several arch types, I want proper RPMs that  
> only contain binaries for one arch type, built in a mock  
> environment containing only RPMs of that arch type. I was hoping I  
> could build those RPMs from multiarch CLFS but it was glibc and gcc  
> that proved to be problematic, particularly glibc - which quite  
> demonstratably built differently (not as complete) when -- 
> target="i686" was passed to rpmbuild, so the 64-bit apps were  
> impacting 32-bit building.
> _______________________________________________

What I meant was that I have one spec file for all the arches. When I  
build the RPM with it it will only make the RPM for that arch. E.G.  
If i run openssl.spec it will make openssl.i686.rpm,  
openssl.pcc.spec, openssl.sparc64.spec etc. It will only make i686 on  
i686 and so on. The PowerPC and i686 have a different configuration  
to the Sparc64 machine and this is shown in the spec file by the % 
ifarch statment.

%ifarch sparc64
./Configure linux64-sparcv9 --openssldir=/etc/ssl --prefix=/usr shared
%else
./config --openssldir=/etc/ssl --prefix=/usr shared
%endif


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