tomcat55 port on AMD64

[Boris Samorodov]

On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:33:28 -0400 Frank Laszlo wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

I think that it is intended to use with the packages. As we discussed
earlier, there is now native linux on AMD. Hence, one should fetch and
install those for i386.


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