Athlon Incompatible Packages

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Tue Feb 24 05:55:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

> Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:09:01AM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > 
> >>I think you're avoiding my question, which is whether this is a bug or 
> >>not. It seems to me though, that this is a bug... and all bugs have to 
> >>be fixed, correct? As far as the real issues go, I'll get to those 
> >>too... - I have 67 additional packages that will not build on fedora.
> > 
> > 
> > It is not a bug.  rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i386.
> 
> But shouldn't the athlon arch be compatible with 386?
> In which case shouldn't the packages also allow athlon?
> Excuse my total ignorance on this... If in fact, the packages in 
> question will not work correctly on athlon, and fedora is unwilling to
> support athlon, then I can see how this is not a bug.

Who said they would not work?? I am writing this on an athlon system and
I recompiled nothing. They work just fine.

Tom





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