Rebuilding gcc on Fedora 18 - Howto build i686 packages on a x86_64 machine

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:48:24 +0200, Jon Miller wrote:
> How do the experts build the i686 & x86_64 packages? (I did notice the "Build
> Host" varies between the two, so I'm wondering if I need to build a 32bit
> Fedora 18 instance to repeat this build process?)

With some packages it is possible to run: rpmbuild --target=i686 ...
But .spec files usually have bugs here and there so mock is the only
"supported" solution as suggested in the other mail.


Jan