Bug 183172

Summary:	grub Targeted Architecture Not Supported
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joseph D. Wagner <joe>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Joseph D. Wagner 2006-02-27 05:00:50 UTC

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Description of problem:
When attempting to specify a target architecture higher than i386 (i.e. i486, 
i586, etc), rpmbuild returns an error saying that the architecture is not 
included. 
 
I see no reason the architecture would not be supported.  Even noarch packages 
will build with a target architecture specified; the option simply has no 
effect on them. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-0.95-13.src.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Simply execute the command "rpmbuild --rebuild --target=foobar" where foobar 
is any x86 compatible 32-bit architecture higher than i386 (i.e. i486, i586, 
etc). 

Actual Results:  "error: Architecture is not included: i686" 

Expected Results:  The package should have built properly. 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Joseph D. Wagner 2006-02-28 04:31:28 UTC

Of the 226 Source RPMS distributed with FC4, this is one of only a handful of 
Source RPMS that does not support a more advanced target architecture (i.e. 
i486, i586, etc).  Even Source RPMS in which a higher target architecture will 
yield no practical improvements allow a higher target architecture to be 
specified.

Could you please explain why something that works for almost every other 
package but not for this package is not a bug?

I don't mean to be stepping on toes; it's just that I would like an 
explanation, so that I know I'm not being brushed aside.

Comment 2 Peter Jones 2006-03-13 21:57:45 UTC

This is a bootloader.  The code in it really is architecture specific.