Thanks, for the information.
I will follow it.

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Von: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Akemi Yagi
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2013 14:44
An: ZITBB Büttner, Frank
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Betreff: Re: %_host_vendor Bug in the rpm package of SL 6?

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:52 AM, ZITBB Büttner, Frank
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> 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

This is an upstream bug and was filed here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743229

It's status now says "Release pending", so the fix is likely to be in EL 6.4.

Akemi