On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:32:26PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:49:44PM +0100, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote: > > > Package: libstdc++5-dev > > > Version: 1:3.2.3-0pre5 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > The file /usr/include/c++/3.2/i386-linux/bits/atomicity.h > > > has code, which does not work on i386. It needs i486 or above. > > > > > > Is i386 unsupported by debian? > > > > > > Personally I haven't found any info regarding this on debian-devel or > > > in the debian policy, so is there any consensus in dropping i386? > > > > > > (Note, that I don't have i386 myself, so I hope I didn't get that wrong.) > > > > > > This bug would make nearly all C++-packages compiled with it unusable on > > > i386. > > > > The comment in that file says: > > > > // Low-level functions for atomic operations: x86, x < 4 version -*- C++ > > -*- > > > > Is that incorrect? Hmm, it's the same as the 486 version, so the > > comment is wrong. > > > > This will be fixed in gcc 3.3 (at a performance penalty; we need to > > think about providing the i486 version also). > > or we do think to drop i386 alltogether? How should this library be > installed? Building can be done in a second libstdc++-v3 build dir > with the compiler just built and -march=486 -mtune=585.
It could just be built for i686 and put in /usr/lib/i686; see OpenSSL for an example. I don't know that it's worth the effort. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
