Re: rebuilding SRPMS

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Paul Gienger wrote:

> I saw a question on this in the archives, but no responses, so I'll ask 
> too and offer myself up for flamage.
> 
> Say I have a SRPM, perhaps coming from places where they have only x86 
> boxes.  I try to build that on my Ultra 2 and I get either this:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: sparc:v9 architecture of input file `main.o' is 
> incompatible with sparc output

You really want to be building in a sparc32 environment. "sparc32 bash" 
should get you there.

> 
> or this:
> 
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> cannot create executables.
> 
> The first error is specifically from sendmail, and the second is from 
> BIND 9.2.1, both from redhat 7.3 updates.  I have a custom in-house 
> autofs that I need to build that I get the first error on too, but I'm 
> debugging the build process on standard RH packages first.
> 
> Can anyone help give some insight on how to fix either problem?  I saw 
> some things about gcc being broken on 64bit, is that what I have going 
> on here?
> 
> 
> Thanks for anything
> 
> 

-- 
        Peter

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		-- Bogart