How to package code compiled with 'gcc -m32'?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Oct 7 15:23:20 UTC 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> I've expressed that with a file dependency which breaks Fedora
>>> packaging guidelines:
>>>
>>>   BuildRequires:  /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h
> Note: The particular Guideline is a SHOULD rather than MUST.  It also
> applies to Requires, rather than BuildRequires, although that might not
> be so obvious.  The intention as stated in the Guideline is to save
> end-user time by allowing the depsolver to skip downloading of the large
> filelists metadata file.

I also had the impression (I may be wrong) that this applied more to 
runtime dependencies than build-time dependencies, for which downloading 
of the file lists is less of an issue.

Paul.




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