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Bug 159684

Summary: rpm looks for /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux instead of /usr/lib/rpm/x86_64
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Paul Raines <raines>
Component: rpmAssignee: Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Paul Raines 2005-06-06 22:39:36 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When the x86_64 release of RHEL4 is installed on an Opteron box, all is fine.
rpmbuild looks for macros under /usr/lib/rpm/x86_64-linux/macros

# rpmbuild --showrc | grep ^macrofiles
macrofiles            : /usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/x86_64-linux/macros:/etc/rpm/macros.*:/etc/rpm/macros:/etc/rpm/x86_64-linux/macros:~/.rpmmacros


However, when installed on a Xeon EM64T box, rpm looks in the wrong place
# rpmbuild --showrc | grep ^macrofiles
macrofiles            : /usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux/macros:/etc/rpm/macros.*:/etc/rpm/macros:/etc/rpm/ia32e-linux/macros:~/.rpmmacros


/usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux/macros does not exist and if someone uses rpmbuild
things like %_sysconfdir will be /usr/etc instead of /etc since the macros
in /usr/lib/rpm/macros are not overridden





Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.3.3-7_nonptl

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install x86_64 release of RHEL4 on a Xeon EM64T box
2. use rpmbuild

  

Actual Results:  %_sysconfdir was set to /usr/etc

Expected Results:  %_sysconfdir was set to /etc

Additional info:

Workaround is to do:  ln -s x86_64-linux /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2006-01-06 16:22:23 UTC 
For rpm configuration purposes, the arch name is "x86_64", not "ia32e".

Either create the symlink
    ln -s x86_64-linux /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux
or change the arch in /etc/rpm/platform.