Once upon a time, Jonathan Ryshpan <[email protected]> said:
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 11:00 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > You can't build for x86_64 on i386.  Doing it the other way around
> > works fine though.
> 
> Why not?  I thought that cross compilation worked on any two processors
> (within reason).

Mock doesn't cross-compile, it only runs binaries that can be run
natively on the base system.  It just so happens that x86_64 can run
i686 binaries natively, so you can build i686 on x86_64.  Since i686
cannot run x86_64, you can't build x86_64 on i686.
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