Re: Building dual-arch RPMs

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:44:08PM -0500, Ralph Smith wrote:

> For some reason the target option of rpmbuild does not correctly set
> all of the rpm macros correctly.  I have found that some packages like
> this can be built (on an x86_64 system for i386 target, presumably
> similar to your case) if a line
> 
> %define _lib lib
> 
> is inserted near the top of the spec file.  (_lib is set to lib64
> on 64-bit systems even when building 32-bit.) That should fix the
> particular error you found for "target ppc".  Perhaps an RPM guru
> can tell us (and redhat) where this really should be set.

Is building i386 RPMs on x86_64 (for example) supported at all?
Won't for example several configure scripts work incorrectly anyway?

The other way around, even building "just" x86_64 on x86_64 fails in
several cases when multiple instances (i386 and x86_64) of some lib
packages are installed.

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