Creating RPMs

[Crutcher Dunnavant]

It is very rare for a packager to set up a package in such a way that
the arch flag will get passed through. Only some speed-critical
packages get tweaked in this way (glibc, for one).

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:36:32 -0400, William M. Quarles
<walrus at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know much of anything about creating RPMs from scratch, but I
> was watching the rebuilding of an SRPM on my computer, to which I passed
> the --target=i686 flag, and its compilation lines looked like this
> 
> c++ -c   -I./lib/wx/include/gtk-2.4 -I../include -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2
> -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES
> -D__WXGTK__ -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D_IODBC_ -O2 -MMD -pthread -Wall -fPIC
> -o tbargtk.o ../src/gtk/tbargtk.cpp
> 
> Now -march=i686 is not showing up anywhere in there.  Did the packager
> do something wrong, or is it normal for the flag to not get passed to
> C++ compilation lines during a rebuild?
> 
> Thanks,
> William
> 
> 
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Crutcher