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On Jul 12, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Eric MSP Veith wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> yet another problem from me. :-)
>
> I noticed that RPM version 4.4.8 selects the build target in  
> another way than
> version 4.4.6 did. I have a file ~/.rpmrc, which holds especially the
> following lines:
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> arch_canon: i686: i686 1
> buildarchtranslate: athlon: i686
> buildarchtranslate: i686: i686
>
> This always let rpmbuild automatically select "i686" as my build  
> target. With
> version 4.4.8, it now build for "athlon", which is definetly not  
> what I want.
> Replaceing the entries in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc didn't help, either.
>
> Is there a way to force rpmbuild to use a certain target  
> architecture, save
> the "--target=foo-bar-baz" switch?
>

You can add an explicit --rcfile. It's a one line change to have that  
happen
as traditionally.

Note that rpmrc is gone in rpm-5.0.

Is it really that difficult to add --target CPU-VENDOR-OS?

73 de Jeff

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