[fedora-arm] redhat-lsb 4.0 on ARM

[Gordan Bobic]

 On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:53:05 +0100, Peter Robinson 
 <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> 
> wrote:
>> redhat-lsb 4.0 doesn't build on ARM. The problem is a compound one:
>>
>> 1) The PPC triggerfix patch causes __libc_start_main duplicate 
>> definition.
>> Fixed redhat-lsb-triggerfix.patch is attached.
>>
>> 2) Also in triggerfix same patch, there are duplicate definitions 
>> of:
>> __libc_csu_init
>> __libc_csu_fini
>> which seem to be just stubs in redhat_lsb_trigger.c. So I added an 
>> ifndef
>> __arm__ around them.
>>
>> 3) The arm fix from lsb 3.x is still required (slightly modified, 
>> attached)
>>
>> Is there a bugzilla ticket for this already raised? If so, can 
>> somebody
>> provide a ticket number so I can put these patches there if it's not 
>> already
>> fixed?
>
> Why don't you search in BZ against the component and if there isn't
> one report the bug and attach the patch? Its what the rest of us do,
> and it alerts the component maintain who is possibly not on this 
> list.

 1) I did and didn't find one - which is interesting since redhat-lsb 
 hasn't been available since F12 on ARM due to build failures. I thought 
 someone else here might be looking at the same issue.

 2) My interest is relatively narrow, and specific to the redhat-lsb 
 from RHEL6 release (4.0-3) since that is what I am porting to ARM. We 
 are not up to rawhide as far as releases go on ARM, and my general 
 perception is that filing bugs against Fedora is somewhat futile, 
 especially for secondary arches since it'll be EOL-ed and bugs 
 auto-closed before anybody ever looks at it - and we're not up to 
 rawhide yet on ARM. And it is extremely demotivating to have all your 
 bug tickets auto-closed with all the time-consuming work that went into 
 filing them just because the release is EOL-ed rather than because the 
 bugs are fixed or even looked into. So the goal posts move, and you have 
 to re-research and re-file the tickets - for a few months before the 
 goal posts move again. So I don't bother any more since there should be 
 people who care about it much more than I do.

 But since you asked, I have filed a bugzilla ticket:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738256

 Gordan