rpmbuild with target i386 on x86_64 sets %{_libdir} to lib64.

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 18:10 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> 
> > Since I don't have an i386 installation of Fedora, I am trying to build a
> > set of i386 RPMs on my x86_64 machine using:
> > 
> >     rpmbuild --target=i386 --rebuild foo.src.rpm
> >     or
> >     rpmbuild --target=i386 -bb foo.spec
> > 
> > However, it is expanding %{_libdir} to /usr/lib64.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong? I'm tempted to use --define="_libdir /usr/lib"
> > for a quick fix, but I was under the impression that building i386 packages
> > would have adjusted the path definitions accordingly.
> 
> Despite the technical issues with %_libdir, I think building i386
> on x86_64 is doomed to fail at some point anyway, due to configure
> scripts finding the wrong libraries, etc.

This is _exactly_ why you want to use mock.

Dan

> For simple packages it might work, but for more complex things I
> wouldn't bet on it...
> 
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