Can a kernel rpm be built for i686 on x86_64?

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 10:21:19 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, 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?
>
>
There is no problem, and take a look at mock. This is the way to go.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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