How to adjust make's configuration??

piggyaugu · 08-01-2005, 05:41 PM

I'm using Fedora Core 4. "make --help" gives me "This program built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu".

How can I make it run in "i686"??

Simon Bridge · 08-01-2005, 06:22 PM

It already runs on i686.

Have you tried it?

bigrigdriver · 08-01-2005, 06:32 PM

You probably installed a binary file; it's already compiled; can't change that.

To get a binary compiled for i686, you need to get a source package to compile.
If you get a tarball, unpack it somewhere. Then cd to the directory you unpacked it in. Read the README and INSTALL files for instructions. They usually start with the configure command './configure'. To find the configure options, especially how to compile for i686, do './configure --help', write down the options you want, then run the './configure <your options here>' to make a makefile with the options you want.

Then run make and make install (or whatever the instructions are for the package).

For a .src.rpm, install the source package, then cd to /usr/src/redhat (?)/SPECS, and run './<filename>.spec'. You may want to read up on compiling from .src.rpm to find out how to give the option to compile for i686.