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Bug#251149: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken



From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:29:16 -0400

> And what about building kernels? They will by default be building
> sparc32 kernels. That's the most likely place for this to be a
> problem.

People can't wrap their brain around how to build a sparc64
kernel often right now anyways, making things sparc32 by
default isn't going to change that.

The most common error is simply not having a 64-bit libc
installed, which is needed to build and execute the kernel
build tools that get compiled and run as part of the kernel
build.

There also does not exist the necessary 64-bit versions of the
graphical libraries needed to use the graphical kernel configurator.
But one can override "HOSTCC=gcc -m32" during the build to get that
working.

Anyways, back to the main point, I don't think making sparc32 the
default will change the sparc64 kernel build situation one iota.



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