hi johnny,
apologies, yes this is centos7 on x86_64.
i had to set PKGCONFIG_DIR, but that looked like the only thing.
i'll give mock a try and see what comes out.
thanks a lot
stijn
On 02/15/2017 10:44 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 02/15/2017 03:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 02/15/2017 02:39 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> i'm trying to rebuild the current sssd-client.i686 rpm that is part of
>>> the x86_64 repo, but i fail to do so. rebuilding the sssd.src.rpm on
>>> x86_64 does not produce this rpm.
>>>
>>> i can rebuild sssd.src.rpm with --target=i686, but that sssd-client rpm
>>> has conflicts and a whole bunch of i686 deps that the rpm from the
>>> centos repo doesn't have.
>>>
>>> tips/help welcome
>>
>> I'll assume CentOS-7 as you don't really say which version. This works
>> for CentOS-6 as well though.
>>
>> RHEL-7 does not contain a full i686 tree, only some of that tree in the
>> form of multilib packages. However to BUILD those i686 packages, you
>> need a full i686 repo in your build system.
>>
>> CentOS-7 does actually have an AltArch i686 SIG that produces a fully
>> installable i686 arch. You could use this arch and mock to build i686
>> packages on an x86_64 CentOS-7 machine.
>>
>> You always want to build SRPMs in mock instead of using rpmbuild on a
>> normal system because when building the configure files look for things
>> to link against .. if it finds extra things installed on your system
>> (like desktop files or extra repository packages) it can link against
>> those files and then require things you don't want. Mock creates a
>> separate minimal chroot and adds only requirements of the specific SRPM
>> to that minimal root. The RPMs produced are then only linked against
>> that very controlled build root.
>>
>> There are mock configs for both CentOS-6 i386 and CentOS-7 i386 that
>> will work to build packages in mock and use the CentOS Base and Updates
>> repos by default.
>>
>> You can also see all the mock configs we use on CentOS-7 here:
>>
>> https://git.centos.org/tree/sig-core!bld-seven.git/37012c4fe4f69aa649fdb3e9b1ec002aafd2054f/mock
>
> I forgot to say that we have a mock in centos extras for CentOS-7. You
> can get it with:
>
> yum install mock
>
>
>
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