%ifarch note

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 13:06 +0200, puntogil at libero.it wrote:
> Il 10/10/2013 04:12, Tom Callaway ha scritto:
> > Since I hit this, I'd imagine other people might.
> >
> > If your package has:
> >
> > BuildArch: noarch
> >
> > It will set %{_target_cpu} to "noarch".
> >
> > If you also use %ifarch in that spec file, you might be expecting it to
> > match %{_arch} (the architecture of the build server). It does not. It
> > matches %{_target_cpu}.
> >
> > If you need to conditionalize on the value of %{_arch} in such a spec
> > file, you need to do it explicitly:
> >
> > %if %{_arch} == x86_64 || %{_arch} == i686
> >
> > Hope that helps other folks,
> >
> > ~tom
>
> sorry for the silly question
> isn't the same use:
> %ifarch %{arm}
> for e.g. skip test suite only if the builder is arm?
> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991712

For archful packages %ifarch probably works as you expect; spot's caveat
was about building noarch packages.

- ajax