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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix make kernel rpm bug
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:49:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031225094937.A11396@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312251254240.16528-100000@mazda.sh.intel.com>; from yi.zhu@intel.com on Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 02:58:14PM +0800

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 02:58:14PM +0800, Zhu, Yi wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > hmmm, I don't think $(ARCH) makes the rpm --target strings in all
> > cases..
> 
> From rpm man page --target PLATFORM will interpret PLATFORM as
> arch-vendor-os and set %_target, %_target_cpu, %_target_os accordingly.
> In this case only arch is set, so vendor and os will remain as default.
> 
> If you still think it is too implicit, how about change as below? In case
> you want set RPM_VENDOR_OS to something like "-unknown-linux".

What Jeff means is that $(ARCH) may not be what rpm calls the
architecture.  For instance, the kernel has "arm" but RPM has
"armv3l" "armv4l" etc, but doesn't know what "arm" is.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-25  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F840254C76E@PDSMSX403.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2003-12-25  6:58 ` [PATCH] fix make kernel rpm bug Zhu, Yi
2003-12-25  9:49   ` Russell King [this message]
     [not found] <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F840254C793@PDSMSX403.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2003-12-26  7:26 ` Zhu, Yi
2003-12-10  9:06 Make rpm patch for cross compile 2.6.0-test11 Zhu, Yi
2003-12-25  2:43 ` [PATCH] fix make kernel rpm bug Zhu, Yi
2003-12-25  4:12   ` Jeff Garzik

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