Description of problem: I'm trying to build a package which has BuildRequires: python-devel. The build succeeds for all platforms in rawhide but fails on ppc64 for Fedora 8 (successfully builds for all other supported platforms). The build fails with this messages in the log: ENTER do(['bash', '--login', '-c', 'rpmbuild -bs --target ppc64 --nodeps builddir/build/SPECS/protobuf.spec'], False, '/var/lib/mock/dist-f8-build-293448-54525/root/', None, 86400, True, 0, 101, 102, None, logger=<mock.trace_decorator.getLog object at 0xf75a1910>) Executing command: ['bash', '--login', '-c', 'rpmbuild -bs --target ppc64 --nodeps builddir/build/SPECS/protobuf.spec'] sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory warning: Could not canonicalize hostname: ppc2.fedora.redhat.com Building target platforms: ppc64 Building for target ppc64 Wrote: /builddir/build/SRPMS/protobuf-2.0.2-4.fc8.src.rpm Child returncode was: 0 LEAVE do --> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): N/A? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. checkout protobuf package from fedora cvs. 2. make scratch-build-ppc64 in F-8 branch. Actual results: Build fails. Expected results: Successful build. Additional info: I found from the root.log that the python-devel and even python-setuptools-devel are installed successfully in the build environment, but for some unknown reason python seems to be missing.
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It appeared that some other dependencies were missing on ppc64 which caused a failed build.