Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:43:14PM +0000, James Troup wrote: >> Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Clint Adams writes: >> >> Package: gcc >> >> Version: 4:3.3.1-2 >> >> File: /usr/bin/gcc >> >> >> >> Please make the sparc gcc wrapper optional for those of us who would >> >> prefer a symlink to gcc-3.3. >> > >> > why is it annoying? it just works. >> >> Not really. It, AIUI, blithely assumes 64-bit if running on a 64-bit >> machine with 64-bit libc-dev installed. This is a rather broken >> assumption given that only two out of the hundreds of library packages >> in Debian are 64-bit enabled. > > That is going to increase.
I'm sure it will... eventually. But the vast majority of libraries will be 32-bit only for a while (and probably should be too, TBH) > Not only that, but there is a way to disable it. Yes, but sparc32-jailing builds is both non-obvious, tedious and easy to forget. If there was a global way to disable the "64-bit by default" I think people would be less offended by the wrappper? e.g. [ -f /etc/gcc/i-luv-32-bit ] or something ;) -- James