Hello all! I searched the mailing list archives and found a few
discussions of this topic, way back when, but there weren't any
satisfactory answers. I'm wondering...why does RedHat not natively
support i586 and i686 builds? (They do in the kernel, but that appears
to be the *only* place.)
I looked through the source code to rpm, and found that it folds all
i[456]86 architecture requests to i386. That wasn't very hard to fix.
I've looked at the makefiles for egcs and XFree86 so far, and although
it took a bit of trekking, I figured out where to patch in the options
so that i586 and i686 native versions could be built. (Both are still
in the testing phase.)
If the reason i586 and i686 native builds aren't supported is because no
one has yet bothered to do the work and send the patch file to RedHat,
that's fine. I'll be happy to send in my changes, once I'm confident
about them. But is that the kind of change RedHat even wants? They're
not supporting it now; do they have a good reason that hasn't occurred
to me?
Any light on this subject would be most appreciated. :-)
Steven Boswell
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