In regard to: rpm-4.4.8 selects a wrong build target, Eric MSP Veith said...:

> Is there a way to force rpmbuild to use a certain target architecture, save
> the "--target=foo-bar-baz" switch?

Create a file called

 	/etc/rpm/platform

In it put something like

i686-unknown-linux-gnu

or

i686-redhat-linux

or whatever default target you want to use.  platform can actually hold
multiple patterns.  For my Opteron Solaris workstation, I've been using

x86_64-sun-solaris
x86_64-sun-solaris2.10
x86_64-[^-]*-solaris.*
noarch-[^-]*-.*

Tim
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