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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 18:14 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 17:06, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 15:53 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> "setarch i686" is missing.
> 
> > Bug in rpm.
> 
> Not really. Use setarch.
Wrong. Try the same targeting a sparc.

> > rpmbuild should set its macros according to --target, but it doesn't.
> 
> Are you sure that's the documented behaviour?
Without it, --target is useless.

Ralf