On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 05:08:30PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 08/06/16 15:43 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> >On 2016-06-08, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >>Also, since gcc%{?_isa} **doesn't work** then yes, not using %_isa for
> >>gcc seems sensible! :-)
> >>
> >Why both gcc.i686 and gcc.x86_64 are available in the x86_64 repository?
> >Shouldn't gcc.i686 be expelled from the x86_64 repository?

Of course it should.  But I bet the reason why it got pulled in is that
somebody added some bogus Requires or BuildRequires that brought it in.

> Think about it: you can't build 32-bit software **at all** unless you
> install glibc-devel.i686, not even just "int main() { }" with no
> headers at all.
> 
> This is independent of foobar-devel.
> 
> And it's not a very common case anyway. If you need to build 32-bit
> code on a 64-bit system then install glibc-devel.i686 and then it's
> done, it doesn't need to be done again.

You need also libgcc.i686 and for C++ libstdc++-devel.i686.

        Jakub
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