tomcat55 port on AMD64

[Frank Laszlo]

Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:08:19 -0400 Frank Laszlo wrote:
>   
>> Boris Samorodov wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 12:03:11 -0400 Frank Laszlo wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I submitted a patch[1] to fix this issue some time ago, It has to do
>>>> with the way linux ports handle ARCH, since the linux emulation port
>>>> doesn't work on amd64, its forced to use i386 rpm's. Unfortunately my
>>>> efforts were shun by a brick wall, and no changes were made to address
>>>> this. I am going to repeat this one more time, ARCH should NEVER be
>>>> overwritten, here is yet another example of why.
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> [1]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91911
>>>>         
>>> Seems that this problem shouldn't exist since updating of the port to
>>> use new bsd.linux-rpm.mk.
>>>
>>>       
>> You would think so, but the fact of the matter is, ARCH should be a
>> READONLY variable. It is relied upon heavily in the ports framework and
>> shouldn't be changed, ever. Why we don't just use another variable name
>> to do the trickery is what I am wondering.
>>     
>
> Argh, yes. You are right. It do have problems with current default
> port linux_base-8. I'm using linux_base-fc3 for a long time and get
> used to it too much.
>
>
> WBR
>   

It looks like linux_base-fc3 is basically doing what my patch was
intended for, renaming the poor use of ARCH to something else
(LINUX_RPM_ARCH) so that we are not overwriting such an important
variable. But it does still have this for some reason:

.if (${ARCH} == "amd64")
LATEST_LINK:=           ${LATEST_LINK:C/linux/linux32/}
ARCH=                   i386
.endif

I'm not really sure what purpose that serves, as ARCH isn't used
anywhere in the Makefile. perhaps I am missing something from
bsd.linux-rpm.mk.

-Frank