%ifarch semantics

["Serguei Ostrovskii" <sostrovsky snip net>]

Hello,

here's a quote from "Maximum RPM" :

<quote>
%ifarch i386 sparc
           
The contents of the spec file following this line would be processed only by Intel x86 or Sun SPARC-based systems.
</quote>

It seems to me that's not true.
I tried
rpmbuild -ba --target i586
a package which had in .spec file something like
%ifarch i386 sparc sparc64
  patch0 ....
%endif
and that patch wasn't applied.
And it sure did when I appended to %ifarch targets i586, i686

Presuming I am not mistaken, are there any means to have
the behaviour "Maximum RPM" describes,
something that would mean IA-32 ?

Thank you,

Sergey Ostrovsky.