Can a kernel rpm be built for i686 on x86_64?

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 <wacker at octothorp.org> wrote:
>       Hi all,
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>           Years ago, I successfully built an i686 kernel using a machine running the x86_64 distro.  The kernel seemed to run fine.  The only trouble I found was when I tried to build an external module, the build failed.  It
>       turned out that the kernel-devel package had a binary called genksyms. That was still being built as an elf64 binary.  I can no longer find that binary, so I believe it's now OK to build all my packages for i686 and x86_64
>       at once on an x86_64 machine.  Is this recommended?  If not, why not?
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> There is no problem, and take a look at mock. This is the way to go.
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Thanks.  I knew I could do it in Mock, but with the small number of builds 
I do, it seems like overkill.  If I understand you correctly, I should be 
good to go, even without Mock.

          Thanks again.

-- 
          Bill in Denver