Bug#637885: g++ -m32 does not work out of the box

[Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011, Matthias Klose wrote:
> tag 637885 + wontfix
> severity 637885 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> On 08/15/2011 04:19 PM, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> >    g++ -m32 does not work out of the box because g++-4.6 only suggests
> > g++-4.6-multilib instead of at least recommending it. It would be nice
> > if the dependency was pulled by default.
> > 
> >    The same goes for gcc-4.6 / gcc-4.6-multilib, by the way.
> 
> there was a bug report asking for the current behaviour. If you want multilib,
> please install it.

   Well this is a bug report asking for the previous, non-broken behaviour.

   I found no such bug report in gcc-4.4, gcc-4.5 or gcc-4.6. Could you
please point it to me? I could not find anything in any of the package
changelogs either. I hope you understand that I don't understand the
rationale for deliberately breaking the -m32 flag upon upgrade or for
believing this is not a "normal" bug, so I'm interested in knowing the
other reporter's arguments.

Cheers,
-- 
Sam.