RPM_OPT_FLAGS

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 06:01:21PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> digging into this -mms-bitfields problem (and openssl package) i come to
> the conclusion it'd be better if we can solve the whole cflags issue in
> some more general way. ie. currently rpm use RPM_OPT_FLAGS which use
> optflags which defined in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc and /usr/lib/rpm/**/macros.
> it'd be better if we somehow can define that the current build's
> platform is win32 and rpm set all flags according to it. this's exactly
> what i do in %_mingw32_env, but if we can use some kind of rpm internal
> mechanism, then probably we can build much more easily native fedora
> packages. eg in case of openssl the native package hack Configure in
> openssl-0.9.8g-redhat.patch to use RPM_OPT_FLAGS. so we can use the same
> patch the same mechanism to for mingw too and in this case it'll work
> for all packages (where we'll forget about -mms-bitfields and may be
> other flags).
> in case of openssl we still need some ugly hack but in case of other
> packages this may help a lot.
> is there any rpm gurus here?

Whatever the answer is, if it involves changing base rpm packages, it
has to be discussed on fedora-devel-list (or even the upstream rpm.org
list).  It's not something we can even speculate about here ...

Rich.

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