source rpms

[John Thompson]

Badli Al Rashid wrote:

> is there any other solution that i could use? so that i dont have to
> recopy back the original rpmrc files. if i build with the original rpmrc
> files, i could only make the rpm in the i386 folder. the reason i wanted
> to recompile was to optimize the samba for my dual xeon procs :) and this
> was my first try at recompiling using source RPM's.

Why not just compile the src.rpm with the "i686" optimizations?

E.g. "rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 samba-3.0.7-2.FC2.src.rpm"

Worked fine for me, anyway, but I only have dual PIII-600's.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)