On Tuesday, 01 February 2005, at 14:20:36 (+0100), Toralf Lund wrote: > Nice. It's new to me as well that you can do this. But the > functionality is perhaps not documented anywhere? I forget how I learned of it. Most likely I discovered it by accident, or I may have gotten it from HJ Lu. (We worked together at the time.) > A couple of questions related to this: > > 1. Can I get the same effect via rpm tag setup or macro definitions? > I mean, can I do > BuildArch: i386,i686,x86_64 > or similar in order to get multiple builds even when not using > --target? (I don't think BuildArch works that way, but a different > tag, perhaps? Or some kind of macro trickery?) > 2. Is there any way to tell the build invocations apart, besides > testing the architecture? What I have in mind is something like > %if %_now_executing_build_script_for_the_first_target_listed > doSomething > %else > doSomethingElseEntirely > %endif The comma-separated syntax for --target causes essentially the same effect as a shell loop like this: for i in i386 i686 x86_64 ; do rpmbuild --target=$i ; done So, as you would expect in the single-arch case, standard %ifarch/%ifnarch semantics work correctly in the multi-arch case as well. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other end of the brush on the other end of the child." -- Unknown, from a screen shot at mandrake.net _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
