Bug#221282: /usr/bin/gcc: sparc wrapper is annoying
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:43:14PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
>> Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>>
>> > Clint Adams writes:
>> >> Package: gcc
>> >> Version: 4:3.3.1-2
>> >> File: /usr/bin/gcc
>> >>
>> >> Please make the sparc gcc wrapper optional for those of us who would
>> >> prefer a symlink to gcc-3.3.
>> >
>> > why is it annoying? it just works.
>>
>> Not really. It, AIUI, blithely assumes 64-bit if running on a 64-bit
>> machine with 64-bit libc-dev installed. This is a rather broken
>> assumption given that only two out of the hundreds of library packages
>> in Debian are 64-bit enabled.
>
> That is going to increase.
I'm sure it will... eventually. But the vast majority of libraries
will be 32-bit only for a while (and probably should be too, TBH)
> Not only that, but there is a way to disable it.
Yes, but sparc32-jailing builds is both non-obvious, tedious and easy
to forget. If there was a global way to disable the "64-bit by
default" I think people would be less offended by the wrappper?
e.g. [ -f /etc/gcc/i-luv-32-bit ] or something ;)
--
James
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