On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>>
>>
>> Naive has become will never ever be successful.
> I'm not sure if I get what you mean. The macro was more to avoid  
> having to add
> every specific sparc arch in a spec if the build target were a  
> specific sparc
> arch. Different compiler flags per sparc arch would still be  
> independent of
> this..
>

The flaw is the location where the %sparc macro is defined.

/usr/lib/rpm/macros is read by every invocation of rpm.

Q: How many builds on, say, i386 platforms care or need sparc9v2
added to %sparc?
A: 0

Q: How many non-builds (think about install/erase/query/verify/ 
import/... rpm modes)
on any platform, including sparc9v2, care or need sparc9v2 added to  
%sparc?
A: 0

Nothing at all wrong with configuring builds on sparcs to add rparc9v2  
to %sparc.

73 de Jeff