On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Matthias Schroeder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hallo Frank,
> 
> do you have the redhat-rpm-config rpm installed on your build node?

Just noticed that it does not matter. It looks as if %host_vendor is not used and not set anymore by TUV, at least on 6.3. Appears to be fine again in 6.4 beta. In the meantime you can set in in your .rpmmacros

Matthias

> 
> Schoene Gruesse,
> 
> Matthias
> 
> On Feb 7, 2013, at 9:52 AM, "ZITBB Büttner, Frank" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello list,
>> I have try to rebuild an rpm package with use the %configure macro.
>> This will fails, beacuse the %_host_vendor macro witch is placed at:
>> /usr/lib/rpm/macros is set to "unknown" and not to "redhat" like the
>> "%_vendor" macro in the same file. This will result that the build script will
>> think it is an cross build. But it is not.
>> 
>> So I think it will be in an bug in SL Linux.
>> 
>> package: rpm-4.8.0-27.el6.x86_64
>> 
>> 
>> Sample:
>> %configure will result in:
>> ./configure --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
>> 
>> but correct will be:
>> ./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Frank Büttner
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