[syslinux] Rpm build problem syslinux (SUSE)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> 
>> And also, on OPENSUSE it wants to build the rpm for i586, not for i386. You get
>> the error:
>>   error: Architecture is not included: i586
>>
>> This can be solved by adding i586 (and perhaps i686) to the following lines in syslinux.spec
>>   ExclusiveArch: i386 i586 x86_64
>> ...
>>   %ifarch i386 i586
>>
> 
> I have no idea if that breaks things outside OPENSUSE.
> 
> ( in other words: The proposed fix will build on i586 system,
>                   but the question is if the executable will work on
>                   non-i586 computers  )
> 

It won't, for "it" meaning the installer binary (the boot loader itself 
will work on anything), but since they're building for i586, they don't 
care.

	-hpa