Fedora and Cross Compiling

[David Smith]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:42 -0500, David Smith wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> Is rpm able to install arbitrary "foreign arch'ed rpms" to a non-default
>>> "rpmroot"?
>>>
>>> e.g. to run
>>> rpm -i -r /usr/share/<target>/var/lib/rpm xxx.sparc.rpm
>>> on non-sparc systems?
>> Sure.  I believe we used the '--root PATH' feature of rpm.
> How about scriptlets?
> 
> One could try to run the host tools with paths altered, but ...

We just ran with '--noscripts' for cross rpms when installing build 
dependencies (if I remember correctly).  Probably more than %90 of build 
dependencies (libfoo-devel) just run ldconfig, which isn't needed for 
link purposes.

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