rpmbuild with target i386 on x86_64 sets %{_libdir} to lib64.

[Jos Vos]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:

> Since I don't have an i386 installation of Fedora, I am trying to build a
> set of i386 RPMs on my x86_64 machine using:
> 
>     rpmbuild --target=i386 --rebuild foo.src.rpm
>     or
>     rpmbuild --target=i386 -bb foo.spec
> 
> However, it is expanding %{_libdir} to /usr/lib64.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? I'm tempted to use --define="_libdir /usr/lib"
> for a quick fix, but I was under the impression that building i386 packages
> would have adjusted the path definitions accordingly.

Despite the technical issues with %_libdir, I think building i386
on x86_64 is doomed to fail at some point anyway, due to configure
scripts finding the wrong libraries, etc.

For simple packages it might work, but for more complex things I
wouldn't bet on it...

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