[fedora-arm] rawhide package build updates and problems

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 10:03 -0500, William Cohen wrote:
>> On 03/01/2012 09:18 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> > Now onto the rest....
>>
>> > - systemtap - I think this might depend on java so really not too sure here.
>>
>> systemtap is using fop to build pdf version of documentation. The problem looks similar to:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704298
>
> O darn, so it does use java indirectly to generate the documentation. I
> don't think that is the problem though. The problem seems to be that on
> other arches java packages get compiled with a 1.7 compiler and the 1.6
> java available on arm doesn't understand the new byte code. hmmm.

Yes, see note about java and upstream looking at it.

> So, to get this through maybe we should disable the %global
> with_publican for arm for now?

Great, lets do that but can you add an entry here to document and mark
it as WORKAROUND so we know we need to review it again later to fix
the problem.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora17_rawhide#broken_on_arm_general_packages

Peter