Hi Kurt, On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 08:40:49AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 08:07:14PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > For ppc64el, we see: > > | configure: WARNING: not running biarch tests, gcc -m32 does not work > > Indeed, a gcc-multilib package might help here. gcc doesn't build it for > > ppc64el and I'd very much like to not add any further multilib packages. > > Instead, we should move to fully triplet prefixed toolchains. Rather > > than running "gcc -m32", run "powerpcle-linux-gnu-gcc". Besides saving a > > lot of trouble, the latter is not ambiguous. > > I don't see gcc-multilib on ppc64el.
Yes, I said that there is no gcc-multilib:ppc64el. > I'm wondering if I should just disable the biarch tests on all > arches and remove the gcc-multilib Depends completly. I won't disagree with that. Personally, I'd like to see biarch/multilib to die as soon as possible. Unfortunately, it looks like we'll have to support it for quite some time yet. Still we don't have to add it for new architectures (like ppc64el). Helmut
