[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.0 -> 4.1 update failing

[Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>
> That is by design ... the i686 glibc will not work with the c3 ... the
> i686 kernel will.

Interesting.  Hmmm.

> You need to use the i386 glibc.  As written, the latest RH glibc SRPM
> will not build for --target i486 or --target i586 ...

But I've seen several packages where building for --target i386
still results in an --march=i486.  In fact, that's probably why they
clearly still say ".i386.rpm" despite requiring i486 ISA.

> I am close to making it build properly for --target i586, but since
> the .i386 glibc works well on i586 and it should build with that
> target unmodified in the future, that is the way we will proceed.


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