Bug#1101096: gcc-multilib: please enable gcc-multilib for hurd-amd64

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 23 mars 2025 13:54:11 +0200, a ecrit:
> su 23.3.2025 klo 10.06 Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org) kirjoitti:
> > Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 23 mars 2025 09:21:49 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, debian-hurd@lists.debian.org , martin-eric.racine@iki.fi
> > > User: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> > > User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> > > Usertags: amd64
> > >
> > > Could gcc-multilib & dependencies be compiled for hurd-amd64 as well? Without it we're missing the -m32 flag.
> >
> > Put another way: why do you need -m32? We didn't feel it was worth
> > spending the time to fix the 32bit multilib support when that will be
> > moot in 2038 anyway.
> 
> I have a package whose autoconf checks for -m32 to produce 32-bit
> binaries on 64-bit ports. Implementing this on amd64 and x32 merely
> required adding gcc-multilib to Build-Depends. hurd-64 fails that
> check because there's no gcc-multilib.

But there are other ports that don't have a 32bit variant (e.g.
loong64), so that case exists anyway.

Samuel