Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Gene C.]

On Monday 23 February 2004 14:30, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> Is there any reason why those packages restrict arch to 386 and are not
> compatible with athlon, or is that a bug? I'd like to be able to rebuild
> them. Would you like me to file a bugzilla on each one?
>
> acpid-1.0.2-6.src.rpm
> dietlibc-0.24-3.src.rpm
> epiphany-1.0.7-1.src.rpm
> fedora-release-1.90-11.src.rpm
> festival-1.4.2-20.src.rpm
> gaim-0.75-2.1.0.src.rpm
> grub-0.94-2.src.rpm
> libunwind-0.96-2.src.rpm
> ltrace-0.3.29-2.src.rpm
> memtest86-3.0-4.src.rpm
> mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1.src.rpm
> mozilla-1.6-1.src.rpm
> openCryptoki-2.1.3-3.src.rpm
> prelink-0.3.0-21.src.rpm
> redhat-lsb-1.3-1.src.rpm
> reiserfs-utils-3.6.11-2.src.rpm
> syslinux-2.08-2.src.rpm
> system-config-boot-0.2.1-1.1.src.rpm
> system-config-netboot-0.1.3-2.1.src.rpm

A good reason to restrict the package to i386 (besides the reasons that many 
other have cited) is that at least one of these packages (grub) contains i386 
assembler code ... it will not build on a x86_64 target for example.
-- 
Gene