Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:09:01AM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
>>I think you're avoiding my question, which is whether this is a bug or 
>>not. It seems to me though, that this is a bug... and all bugs have to 
>>be fixed, correct? As far as the real issues go, I'll get to those 
>>too... - I have 67 additional packages that will not build on fedora.
> 
> 
> It is not a bug.  rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i386.

But shouldn't the athlon arch be compatible with 386?
In which case shouldn't the packages also allow athlon?
Excuse my total ignorance on this... If in fact, the packages in 
question will not work correctly on athlon, and fedora is unwilling to
support athlon, then I can see how this is not a bug.