Re: building i386 RPMs on an x86_64

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:

> Hi -
>
> When I try to build an i386 RPM on an x86_64 rawhide machine  
> (rpm-4.4.2-24)
> ie. with:
>  # rpmbuild ... --target i386 -ba my.spec
>
> I get ${RPM_ARCH} == x86_64 , and %{_libdir} == /usr/lib/lib64 , but
> RPM_OPT_FLAGS correctly contains '-m32 .. -march=i386' .
>
> This seems like a bug to me - or am I missing something -
> any comments / suggestions ?

Seems like a bug to me as well, but is exactly what I was asked to  
implement in rpm.

Hint: Hack /etc/rpm/platform to identify your machine as "i386" arch.  
Speciflically, put this string into the file:
    i386-vedorssuck-linux-gnu

73 de Jeff