Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:33:28 -0400 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tomcat55 port on AMD64 Message-ID: <44637568.4020203@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <73088465@srv.sem.ipt.ru> References: <00bd01c6750a$b7c631e0$0a1610ac@prodcave.com> <4463603F.3050600@vonostingroup.com> <39169750@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <44636F83.8020103@vonostingroup.com> <73088465@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
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Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:08:19 -0400 Frank Laszlo wrote: > >> Boris Samorodov wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 12:03:11 -0400 Frank Laszlo wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I submitted a patch[1] to fix this issue some time ago, It has to do >>>> with the way linux ports handle ARCH, since the linux emulation port >>>> doesn't work on amd64, its forced to use i386 rpm's. Unfortunately my >>>> efforts were shun by a brick wall, and no changes were made to address >>>> this. I am going to repeat this one more time, ARCH should NEVER be >>>> overwritten, here is yet another example of why. >>>> >>> >>> >>>> [1]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91911 >>>> >>> Seems that this problem shouldn't exist since updating of the port to >>> use new bsd.linux-rpm.mk. >>> >>> >> You would think so, but the fact of the matter is, ARCH should be a >> READONLY variable. It is relied upon heavily in the ports framework and >> shouldn't be changed, ever. Why we don't just use another variable name >> to do the trickery is what I am wondering. >> > > Argh, yes. You are right. It do have problems with current default > port linux_base-8. I'm using linux_base-fc3 for a long time and get > used to it too much. > > > WBR > It looks like linux_base-fc3 is basically doing what my patch was intended for, renaming the poor use of ARCH to something else (LINUX_RPM_ARCH) so that we are not overwriting such an important variable. But it does still have this for some reason: .if (${ARCH} == "amd64") LATEST_LINK:= ${LATEST_LINK:C/linux/linux32/} ARCH= i386 .endif I'm not really sure what purpose that serves, as ARCH isn't used anywhere in the Makefile. perhaps I am missing something from bsd.linux-rpm.mk. -Frank
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