fedora for ARM

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 07:31 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Manas Saksena wrote:
> > Andy Green wrote:
> >> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 

> >> I have rpm-packaged a bunch of apps for crosscompile (arm9 and avr32)
> >> here
> 
> > Did you have to modify rpm/rpmbuild tools? Virtually, every Embedded
> > Linux vendor has modified rpm to make it behave properly for
> > cross-building etc. It would be a good idea if we can get this done
> > right in upstream rpm.
> 
> No, nothing was needed to change in the build host rpmbuild, it works
> fine with rpmbuild that comes from FC6 and FC7 as it is including using
> rpmbuild --target to set the arch.  The spec files are just normal spec
> files.
This doesn't match at all with my experience.

But .. could it be that you are not having redhat-rpm-config installed?
At least on FC6 it screws up --target, produces invalid *debuginfo*.rpm
for foreign object formats and many other details.

Ralf