On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:10 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:04:18PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> What does this rpmlint message mean? I don't understand why it's harmful
> to have patches only applying to particular architectures.
>
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>
> ical.src: W: %ifarch-applied-patch Patch3: ical-2.2-ia64.patch
> A patch is applied inside an %ifarch block. Patches must be applied
> on all architectures and may contain necessary configure and/or code
> patch to be effective only on a given arch.
>
> -----
It likely means that you have a construct like this in a spec file:
%ifarch x86_64
Patch1: some.patch
%endif
Besides this, this patch seems rather silly to me.
Instead of trying to mess around with local defs of gethostname(),
you should probably better "#include <unistd.h>".
Ralf
PS.: __linux__ is the correct (POSIX-compliant) define to identify
linux.