Cross-compilers.

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Sep 18 17:14:57 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 11:19 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:50 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  
> >> Maybe you could enlighten me on why/how --target=noarch-redhat-linux is
> >> wrong or why this *is* an issue?.  I've used it (successfully, I might
> >> add) on a few occasions to generate .noarch rpms.
> ... 
> > I.e. there are at least different issues at once:
> 
> > b) rpm passing an incorrect value to --target.
> > "none" is the value config.sub has reserved for such purposes.
> 
> This looks like the easiest quick-fix/short-term solution to me.

To address broken configure scripts without patching rpm, yes.

The real fix would be rpm to drop passing --target and leave appending
it to those maintainers who really need it.

Ralf





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