Re: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:21:57 -0400
> But (and this but is for David), that means users can't simply do
> "apt-get source foo; cd foo-1.1; dpkg-buildpackage" and get the same build
> they got from us, which is a consistency Debian needs. Maintainers trying
> to fix bugs on sparc in their packages that log in to one of our machines
> shouldn't have to worry about this subtlety either.
Make the login environment be sparc32 by default. Doesn't that
solve the problem? And for die-hard 64-bit people like me they
can undo this via some configuration mechanism.
It is one option.
Another option is to bite the bullet and think about real sub-arch'ing
for debian packages. Then, for a *.sparc package the dpkg building
knows to "sparc32 whatever", yet for a *.sparc64 package the dpkg
building machinery does not.
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