EPEL help needed with a C++ app

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 08/01/2013 08:01 AM, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 07:30 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>>      I am trying to update the libzrtpcpp library from EPEL and bring it
>> to the same version as the one used now in Fedora ( i.e. 2.3.4). The
>> library itself gets compiled in mock just fine; however the demo apps
>> which are included in the tarball ( libzrtpcpp-2.3.4/demo/zrtptest.cpp)
>> and normally get compiled but not included in the final rpm fail to
>> build as shown at
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8897/5678897/build.log
>>      Exactly the same source, without any modification at all, can be
>> built in Fedora ( for instance
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/libzrtpcpp/2.3.4/1.fc17/data/logs/x86_64/build.log 
>>
>> ) without any problems.
>
> So based on the links you provided. The EPEL package fails on a ppc64 
> build. The successful fedora package build seems to only build for 
> i386 and x86_64. My guess is this is where the issue lies. Does the 
> previous version build on ppc64? If so you may need someone to figure 
> out why the newer version does not. If it never really built on pppc64 
> I would imagine you could ad an ExcludeArch: ppc64 and be done with 
> it. If there are ppc64 binary versions then I'm not sure what the 
> correct way forward is. You could talk to upstream about the build 
> failure on ppc64 and see if they can help resolve it... In any case 
> these are just my observations about the failure I see above. 
It fails on all archs. It just happened that the PPC build was the first 
one that died.


     Manuel