Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:14:33PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:52:26PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>    >> - Build all packages for i686 (this requires cmov)
> 
>    > This cuts out AMD Geode ...
> 
> That's not true; Geode has cmov, and should be compatible with gcc's i686.

It does work - I have CentOS 5.3 installed currently on my Geode.

But, it's very hard to install because it appears as a i586 machine.
CentOS doesn't support i586, so I had to install it on the hard drive
using another machine.

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2552

I guess it's possible there are subtle incompatibilities too, but I
haven't found them yet.  OpenSSL appears to work OK.

Rich.

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