Comment 4 for bug 64501

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In , Guillem Jover (guillem) wrote : Re: Bug#339870: openhackware: FTBFS: unrecognized option `-mregnames'

package openhackware
severity 339870 normal
retitle 339870 openhackware: should not try to build on !powerpc environments
merge 339870 322300
thanks

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:55:43PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Package: openhackware
> Version: 0.4.1-1
> Severity: serious

> building the package openhackware in a clean sid build environment
> (with pbuilder) on i386 results in:

It's supposed to only be buildable on a ppc environment, be it native
or crosscompiled. The problem is that right now we don't have a clear
way to specify this kind of build requirement.

What I can do is ask for an addition to Packages-arch-specific so that
buildd (using P-a-s should not try this package if not on ppc), and
then add checks to the package itself to bail out sooner and give a
proper error message.

regards,
guillem