Re: Buildarchtranslate

[Stefan Siegel <siegel informatik uni-kl de>]

Am 2001-12-29, 05:00:41 -0500 schrieb rpjday:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Stefan Siegel wrote:
> > This will create Pentium code (i586) even if build on a i386 or a
> > PentiumPro (i686) machine. As MandrakeSoft only supports i586 code
> > for Intel platforms this ensures all RPMs created will be of this
> > kind.
> 
> immensely.  so this is really a mandrake-specific issue then.
> thanks.

Not really, you can use it to create the kind of RPMs for, lets say 
a slower machine (e.g. i386 code on a PentiumPro), on a faster computer.

I haven't checked it, but I think the other RPM based distributions
like RedHat or SuSE do the same thing ...

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