The idea that rpm can be distributed with a priori drop-in knowledge
of arch names, and with one-size-fits-all compiler flags, and other  
macros,
was known to be naive in the year 2000.

Patch doesn't hurt at all, just that rpm cannot (and should not, but  
I'm a radical)
continue to attempt drop-in no-fuss, no-muss, build configuration  
macros.

Naive has become will never ever be successful.

73 de Jeff

On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:

>  RPM Package Manager, CVS Repository
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> ____________________________________________________________________________
>
>  Server: rpm5.org                         Name:   Per Øyvind Karlsen
>  Root:   /v/rpm/cvs                       Email:  pkarlsen@rpm5.org
>  Module: rpm                              Date:   21-Feb-2008 22:24:59
>  Branch: rpm-5_0                          Handle: 2008022121245800
>
>  Modified files:           (Branch: rpm-5_0)
>    rpm                     macros.in
>
>  Log:
>    add sparc64v to %sparc macro
>
>  Summary:
>    Revision    Changes     Path
>    1.227.2.4   +2  -2      rpm/macros.in
>   
> ____________________________________________________________________________
>
>  patch -p0 <<'@@ .'
>  Index: rpm/macros.in
>   
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
>  $ cvs diff -u -r1.227.2.3 -r1.227.2.4 macros.in
>  --- rpm/macros.in	7 Feb 2008 05:31:48 -0000	1.227.2.3
>  +++ rpm/macros.in	21 Feb 2008 21:24:58 -0000	1.227.2.4
>  @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>   #/*! \page config_macros Default configuration: @USRLIBRPM@/macros
>   # \verbatim
>   #
>  -# $Id: macros.in,v 1.227.2.3 2008/02/07 05:31:48 pkarlsen Exp $
>  +# $Id: macros.in,v 1.227.2.4 2008/02/21 21:24:58 pkarlsen Exp $
>   #
>   # This is a global RPM configuration file. All changes made here  
> will
>   # be lost when the rpm package is upgraded. Any per-system  
> configuration
>  @@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@
>   %alpha  alpha alphaev56 alphaev6 alphaev67
>
>   # and sparc
>  -%sparc sun4 sun4m sun4c sun4d sparc sparcv8 sparcv9 sparc64  
> scparcv9b sparcv9v sparc9v2
>  +%sparc sun4 sun4m sun4c sun4d sparc sparcv8 sparcv9 sparc64  
> sparc64v scparcv9b sparcv9v sparc9v2
>
>    
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   # Use in %install to generate locale specific file lists. For  
> example,
>  @@ .
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