[fedora-arm] redhat-lsb 4.0 on ARM

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>  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.

It has been discussed somewhere, possibly search the list archives.

>  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.

I find that a somewhat amusing and self defeating attitude. You come
to the fedora arm list about a Redhat EL (presumably actually CentOS
or similar) query, where if you file a bug against rawhide it will
likely be included in the eventual RHEL-7 so you won't have the
problem again but you complain about reporting bugs being a waste of
time. Some might see anything to do with a non Fedora distro (even if
its a derivative) posted to a Fedora list as a waste of their
time..... so its swings and roundabouts.

Peter

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