Planning the Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild

[Tom Lane]

"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> On 2009-02-13 at 15:16:17 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, I've got some specfiles that pay attention to the output of "uname -i".
>> Should I expect that that might change from i386?  Is there a different
>> more-recommended way to get the arch type in a build script?

> Well, I don't think the uname -i will change, but the rpm target will
> now be 586, so, they're not going to match anymore, where they did
> before. You might be able to use %{_target_cpu} instead. It really will
> depend on what value you're trying to get.

I want to get "i386" or "x86_64", etc.  This is to be able to assign
appropriate names to files that vary between 32- and 64-bit builds
for multilib safety.

			regards, tom lane