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Bug 926718 - whatsup: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
Summary: whatsup: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: whatsup
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Brown
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ARM64, F-ExcludeArch-aarch64
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-23 16:31 UTC by Dennis Gilmore
Modified: 2013-05-14 18:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-05-14 18:14:11 UTC
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Description Dennis Gilmore 2013-03-23 16:31:30 UTC 
Support for the ARM 64 bit CPU architecture (aarch64) was introduced in 
autoconf 2.69.  whatsup appears to use an earlier version of 
autoconf, preventing its being built.  This can be fixed in of three ways (In order of preference):

1. Work with upstream to migrate the package to autoconf 2.69.

2. Rerun autoconf or autoreconf in %prep or %build prior to running 
configure.

3. Apply the patch at http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/aarch64/whatsup/whatsup-aarch64.patch
which updates config.guess and config.sub to recognize aarch64.
Comment 1 David Brown 2013-03-24 06:04:03 UTC 
I'm fine with trying to do an autogen.sh or autoreconf like thing in the spec file. May have to ask upstream for more build info to regenerate this. However, I've been trying to find a place to test the aarch64 to make sure it works. So far I've got the simulator from the arm website got the latest img-foundation.axf from linaro and am using the latest rootfs.git from http://fedorapeople.org/groups/armv8/rootfs.git but there's so many missing pieces to the image, yum doesn't work because its missing libffi. There isn't even an sshd or clients for ssh. 

I guess I don't see the progress yet to really get this fixed right now, since I'm having to build all the dependencies for this package to even check to see if it works.

So am I missing something or is the above where aarch64 is at right now?
Comment 2 David Brown 2013-03-24 16:31:31 UTC 
Okay, is it better to do an autoreconf in the spec file or call %{GNUconfigure} ??
Comment 3 David Brown 2013-03-24 19:27:09 UTC 
Oh, GNUconfigure doesn't work...

So, autoreconf doesn't work so well with these packages. I'll talk to upstream about getting that part fixed but I'm kind of confused. The config.guess and config.sub are part of automake not autoconf. So why does upstream need to support autoconf 2.69 when the config.sub/config.guess from older automakes won't have the aarch64 in it?
Comment 4 David Brown 2013-03-24 23:56:57 UTC 
for future reference I'll need to test this but I think

autoreconf -I config -f -i

should work for both genders and whatsup.
Comment 5 David Brown 2013-05-06 16:22:10 UTC 
I have versions of both genders and whatsup that should fix this issue but every time I remember I need to run fedpkg update we're in some sort of f19 freeze.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=406713
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=406629

Here's the koji builds for both just in case you want to test things out.
Comment 6 David Brown 2013-05-14 18:14:11 UTC 
This should be resolved now, the update automagically got pushed for me.
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