Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:04:20 -0700 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Andreas Krebs <akrebs@chronolabs.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK15 installation problem SOLVED Message-ID: <20051115170420.GA87350@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <437A0D59.6000507@chronolabs.de> References: <437A028F.3090404@chronolabs.de> <20051115160827.GA86828@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <437A0D59.6000507@chronolabs.de>
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:31:21PM +0100, Andreas Krebs wrote:
> Greg Lewis wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Andreas Krebs wrote:
> >
> >>>So, I wonder what is causing ${ARCH} to be wrong when we try installing
> >>>the
> >>>Linux emulation package?
> >>>
> >>The Makefile in linux_base-8 sets the ARCH back to i386, this setting is
> >>probably used in all following installs (just guessing here)
> >>
> >>.if (${ARCH} == "amd64")
> >>LATEST_LINK:= ${LATEST_LINK:C/linux/linux32/}
> >>ARCH= i386
> >>FALLBACK_ELF_MIB= kern.elf32.fallback_brand
> >>RPMFLAGS+= --noscripts
> >>.else
> >>
> >
> >Exactly. So why is the install of linux_base-8 looking for an RPM with
> >amd64 as the architecture then? That is exactly what the above section
> >of the Makefile is overriding.
> From my understanding the linux emulation always uses i386 RPMs, since
> there is no 64 bit support for the emulation yet. Why the RPMs have the
> $ARCH in their name I don't know since it will always be i386. My guess
> would be that it's designed for future use when 64bit Linux emulation
> becomes available, but I'm only guessing here, but the port maintainer
> should be able to shed some light on this.
Correct. Only i386 Linux emulation is offered on the amd64 architecture
at this point. The RPMs have ${ARCH} in their name to permit other
architectures to potentially be supported (e.g. linux_base supports
both i386 and alpha).
However, you're missing the point :). Go and read the original post in
the thread:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=40758+0+archive/2005/freebsd-java/20051113.freebsd-java
The question is why is the port trying to fetch
glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm
^^^^^
?
As you have mentioned, linux_base-8 deliberately sets ${ARCH} to i386
on amd64 and the RPM names all include ${ARCH}. So, why, when pulled in
as a dependency during the JDK build, does it try and fetch an RPM with
amd64 as ${ARCH} when that should basically be impossible?
This isn't the first report like this either, there have been quite a
few and there is even a PR open regarding it.
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