[fedora-java] Should non-native Eclipse be noarch?

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Tue Sep 20 14:51:43 UTC 2005


* Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> [2005-09-20 10:14]:
> When building with gcj is disabled, this SPEC file sets the BuildArch to
> noarch.  This causes the build to fail, because eclipse_arch gets set to
> i386 instead of ix86.
> 
> I'm not sure what the correct fix is.  Should a non-native Eclipse build
> *really* be noarch?  There sure seems to be a lot of platform-specific
> stuff in there, and I note that JPackage's Eclipse 3.0.x packages are
> i586.

I should fix this.  It shouldn't be noarch.  The reason we have the
gcj-specific stuff in there for arches is because we (well, not anymore but
the last time I tried) could only build on i386, ppc, and x86_64.

So yeah:  Eclipse packages should be arch-specific.

Sorry,

Andrew




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