Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> > I got fed up by people reporting bug on libc6, while this problem results
> > from a decision Debian to implement multiarch. People should work on
> > implementing a compatibility wrapper and to make upstream toolchain
> > multiarch aware. Until this is done, this bug should be kept opened.
>
> Presumably you are referring to Bug#629819 and Bug#637218.
>
> Bug#629819 was about upstream gcc failing to build after crti.o et al
> were moved. This is thorny because
>
> - the relevant non-Debian compiler is xgcc, which is an intermediate
> product from the build process. So a compatibility wrapper for
> gcc would not help here, though a nice build script could.
>
> - gcc's build system is a pain in the neck.
>
> Bug#637218 is a similar problem about headers moving. Again, the use
> case was building and testing upstream gcc.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=85;bug=637218
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=90;bug=637218
>
> give a recipe for building non-multiarch-aware gcc in a multiarch
> environment.
>
> You are right that this doesn't have much to do with eglibc, so I am
> tempted to reassign 629819 to general and merge the bugs. As more
> packages use the multiarch paths, it will only become more important
> to have a way to communicate their location to non-Debian toolchains.
>
The bug is closed given we have provided some hints in NEWS.Debian.gz. I
am not sure what reassigning this already closed bug would change there.
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