Re: cannot find sparc64.gz
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:15:50PM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> > > Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > Bitten by the 64-bitness default of gcc.
> > >
> > > Why does it have a surprising default now?
> >
> > If you uninstall libc6-sparc64, it will be the same as it used to be.
> > Now, it checks "uname=sparc64 && -f /usr/lib64/libc.so", and it defaults
> > to -m64, otherwise it defaults to -m32.
> >
>
> I thought it was going to decide based on libgcc.a instead of libc.so?
It was going to decide using libgcc.so (libgcc.a is installed with
gcc-3.3, so that makes no sense), but libgcc.so is possibly needed just
for runtime, and doesn't mean that the user wants 64-bit compilation.
So libc.so made more sense.
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