RE: '--target' not working

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 28-Sep-2000 Ian Pilcher spoke something to the effect:
> This is really weird.  I've tweaked Red Hat's kernel SRPM, and I'm
> trying to rebuild it for my Pentium II system:
> 
> [root@localhost SPECS]# rpm -bb --target i686 kernel-2.2.spec
> Building target platforms: --
> Building for target --
> File is not a regular file: /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/i686
> 
> I've tried replacing the "i686" with "i686-linux" and
> "i686-unknown-linux" with basically the same result.
> 
> Any ideas?  (This is RPM 4.0 as shipped with Red Hat 7.)

--target=i686

You can specify something illogical as long as the syntax is right:

        --target=686
        --target=o596

will work.

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