F12 to require "i686", but which CPUs do not qualify?

[Deji Akingunola]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Andrew Haley<aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> Deji Akingunola wrote:

>
>> unless of course you mean we should be stuck with the old version.
>> The only way to produce atlas binary for architectures not provided
>> for in the upstream tarball, is to bootstrap it on that particular
>> arch. Unfortunately none of Fedora build infrastructure is based on
>> PII or less.
>
> I don't quite understand this.  Why would we need to bootstrap *on* the
> old arch to compile it *for* the old arch?  Some configury weirdness,
> presumably.  That sounds fixable.  Would it be OK if I did a little
> digging to see if I could fix it?
>
Sure, it'll make some folks happier if you can come up with a fix.

Deji