Bug 146155 - rpmbuild --target ppc64 builds ppc32 binaries
Summary: rpmbuild --target ppc64 builds ppc32 binaries
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpm
Version: 3.0
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
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Blocks: FC6Target
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Reported: 2005-01-25 18:33 UTC by David Lehman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-10-19 19:08:47 UTC
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Description David Lehman 2005-01-25 18:33:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Running rpmbuild --target ppc64 builds ppc32 objects but puts them in /lib64 and
calls the rpm a .ppc64.rpm. I seems CFLAGS and/or RPM_OPT_FLAGS are not being
set correctly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.2.3-13

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Grab any SRPM for which we ship a ppc64 package (eg: zlib)
2. run rpmbuild --target ppc64 -bb zlib.spec
3.
  
Actual results:
rpmbuild creates a .ppc64.rpm containing 32-bit libraries in /usr/lib64

Expected results:
If it builds a ppc64 package the package should contain 64-bit objects

Additional info:
'CC="gcc -m64" rpmbuild --target ppc64 -bb zlib.spec' seems to work.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2005-01-25 22:46:32 UTC
Yep.

Edit /etc/rpm/platform, substitute s/ppc/ppc64/, as
work around.

NEEDINFO until feature is prioritized, as rpmbuild has
never promised the ability for multi-arch builds by
(original, but now creaky) design.

Comment 2 David Lehman 2005-01-27 16:08:56 UTC
That doesn't do it for me. My /etc/rpm/platform already had something
like ppc64pseries-redhat-linux in it, so rpm more or less knew it was
a 64-bit platform. The problem is that even
/usr/lib/rpm/ppc64-redhat-linux/macros doesn't include -m64 in
optflags, which AFAICT is absolutely needed to get 64-bit binaries on
ppc64 RHEL.

Adding it fixes most packages, but not all. Certainly in some of those
cases it's because the package blindly does things like 'gcc -shared ...'


Comment 3 David Lehman 2005-01-27 16:11:59 UTC
THe first sentence of the last paragraph from Comment 2 should read:
  "Adding -m64 to optflags fixes most packages, but not all"

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2005-01-28 17:14:50 UTC
Do you have the redhat-rpm-config package installed?

Comment 5 David Lehman 2005-01-28 17:28:06 UTC
Yes, I reinstalled the box when I started on this issue and made sure
to include all the architecture compatibility comps. At some point I
got curious and verified the install included redhat-rpm-config-8.0.28-2.


Comment 6 Florian La Roche 2005-01-30 17:15:34 UTC
Using "setarch" might also help to get the right target setup?


Comment 9 David Woodhouse 2005-10-05 16:12:18 UTC
This is still not working right -- and it means that RHEL and Fedora aren't
self-hosting.

We should at least put -m64 into ppc64 optflags, I think -- {how,} does this
work for i386 vs. x86_64? 

Comment 10 Paul Nasrat 2006-02-21 17:56:50 UTC
I just tried on rawhide

cat /etc/rpm/platform
ppc64pseries-redhat-linux
rpm -E '%optflags'
rpm -ivh /mnt/redhat/rawhide-ppc/SRPMS/bc-1.06-19.2.1.src.rpm
rpmbuild --target ppc64 bc.spec
cd ../BUILD/bc-1.06/bc
bc: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux
2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped


Comment 11 Manoj Iyer 2006-03-01 22:15:52 UTC
I tried on rawhide 
[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]# cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 4.92 (Pre-FC5)
Kernel \r on an \m
[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]#


[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]# rpmbuild  -bb --target ppc64 ./bc.spec


[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]# file ../BUILD/bc-1.06/bc/bc
../BUILD/bc-1.06/bc/bc: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV),
for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9,
not stripped
[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]#

Also, tried with --target ppc to build 32bit binaries...

[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]# rpmbuild  -bb --target ppc ./tar.spec

[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]# file ../BUILD/tar-1.15.1/src/tar
../BUILD/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped
[root@dhcp78-22 SPECS]#



Comment 12 Paul Nasrat 2006-03-03 23:24:36 UTC
OK %_libdir is still busted CFLAGS are correct.

Comment 13 Jeff Johnson 2006-08-06 21:52:29 UTC
This problem is likely fixed (by setting arch from --tqarget) in rpm-4.4.7-0.15

UPSTREAM

Comment 14 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:08:47 UTC
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
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