Lukas Javorsky wrote on 2023/01/23 21:39:
Hi,
I've been looking at our upstreamed test [1] for libarchive package and it started to fail since Fedora 37.
The error is: "gcc: fatal error: environment variable 'RPM_ARCH' not defined "
Prior to the Fedora 37 the test was passing without any issue.
Did anyone here had a similar problem? Or could anyone help me find out what has changed so it's causing this issue?
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/tests/libarchive/blob/main/f/Sanity/Basic-sani...
Thank you so much for your help
Most possibly due to "package note".
`rpmbuild -bc` defines %{_package_note_flags}, embeds "-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-package-notes" to LDFLAGS, which needs "RPM_ARCH" environment. During rpmbuild process, this environment is provided, but then later "make" process does not define this automatically (because this process is not under "rpmbuild"), so embedded "-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-package-notes" LDFLAGS complains about missing environment.
(Yes, I think this is annoying - sometimes rpmbuild fails with some reason, I try to fix compilation error then try executing "make" locally, then I see linker complains about "'RPM_ARCH' not defined"...)
I usually write "%_package_note_flags %nil" to ~/.rpmmacros, not sure if rpmbuild command line can undefine macros.
Regards, Mamoru