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Re: x32 “half”arrived… now what?



Daniel Schepler <dschepler <at> gmail.com> writes:

> (Sorry about the lack of threading... for some reason I'm unable to find
the 
> links to download mbox archives for replying to the messages.)

https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/getarticle?rev=HEAD

Just call that with either the Message-ID sans <>, or the GMane group
and article number (separated with / like in URIs from GMane also works),
and it’ll append to the unix-format mailbox in ~/mail/x which you can
just reply to with Pine.

> In response to Adam's comments about debootstrap not working because
findutils 
> FTBFS: Yes, I'm aware of that, and for now you have to include "unreleased"
as 

Well, that’s normal for Debian-Ports, nothing to apologise for.

> For the reason we still have multilib packages instead of relying on 
> multiarch, see the thread starting at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00692.html .  (The one good 
> argument there IMO is that dropping libc6-i386 in favor of libc6:i386 could 
> cause difficulties autobuilding gcc-multilib when e.g. libgcc1:i386 and 

Why is gcc built multi-lib anyway?

I see *no* benefit there that wouldn’t also be possible with Multi-Arch
on the users’ system or is discriminatory (e.g. why should gdb:amd64
support natively debugging i386 binaries but not e.g. armhf binaries).

I never understood multilib and still wonder why it’s around. Maybe
there’s a good reason, but other than a desire to keep it, I’ve missed
anything about that yet…

On the contrary, i386 sid users’ systems now end up with this:

-rw-------   1 root   root 159744 Jun  6 10:23 core

/core: ELF 32-bit LSB  core file x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from
'/libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2'

This file is generated quite often, along with the aforementioned
kernel messages. I think this is not acceptable.

bye,
//mirabilos


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