I think I have these issues mostly worked out. See below. On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:19:46PM -0800, Garrick Staples alleged: > As anyone had luck with rebuilding RHE3 for x86_64? > > glibc: > RH does something really weird here, they install two glibc packages, > one built for x86_64 and another built for i686. These packages > actually conflict with each other since they both own files in /etc, > /sbin, /usr/lib/gconv, etc. The i686 package puts libs into /lib and > the x86_64 package puts libs into /lib64. It seems that normal rpm > tools will have problems with this arrangement. > > I figure I have three choices: rename the 32bit version to "glibc32" and > leave out the common files already owned by the 64bit glibc, completely > leave out the 32bit glibc and see if everything still works (foregoing > 32bit operability), copy RH and deal with other eventual maintenance > problems.
I'm moving forward with the first solution. I'm adding spec file --with
options for "32bitcompat" and creating "compat-i686-%{name}" packages
for glibc, ncurses, gpm, and zlib. This is a significant departure from
RH, but I think the non-conflicting package names will make
administration easier in the future.
> gcc:
> Not nearly as complicated as glibc, rebuilding results in an error about
> not finding crti.o:
It was erroring while building a 32bit libgcc, so it needed a 32bit version
of glibc-devel installed.
> grub:
> Basicly the same error as gcc.
Grub's configure script has a forced -m32; I guess x86_64 needs a 32bit
boot loader?
Installing the 32bit glibc-devel fixed this.
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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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