Can a kernel rpm be built for i686 on x86_64?
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Nov 6 10:42:37 UTC 2009
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:15:59 -0700 (MST)
"William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209" <wacker at octothorp.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Years ago, I successfully built an i686 kernel using a machine running
> the x86_64 distro. The kernel seemed to run fine. The only trouble I
> found was when I tried to build an external module, the build failed. It
> turned out that the kernel-devel package had a binary called genksyms.
> That was still being built as an elf64 binary. I can no longer find that
> binary, so I believe it's now OK to build all my packages for i686 and
> x86_64 at once on an x86_64 machine. Is this recommended? If not, why
> not?
It should work fine. It does with the base kernel from kernel.org and I
do this all the time.
Alan
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