On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 July 2013 13:46, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> I think this is actually a glibc problem. I wonder if it's possible to >>> install a stubs-32.h file in a suitable location by default which contains >>> an illuminating #error directive. That file would be hidden by the real one >>> if you install the actual 32 bit development environment. >>> >>> -- >>> Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team >> >> that wouldn't solve the failures on current systems. > > GCC sources could contain a gnu/stubs-32.h header with an #error and > ensure that the right directory to find it is searched when building > the target libraries, but only after all other directories. It > wouldn't need to be installed with GCC because it's only needed while > configuring the target libs.
That only fixes x86_64 (and maybe powerpc), it does not fix the other targets which use multi-lib (MIPS64 or soon AARCH64). Thanks, Andrew
