On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:56:05PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > why is it annoying? it just works.
It just works the opposite of the way I want it to work. It also confuses the hell out of users who just want to compile something. > 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 ;) Maybe add gcc-3.3 and sparc-gcc-wrapper as /usr/bin/gcc alternatives. Seems wasteful to fork the wrapper each time just so that it can check for a file and then behave itself properly. Or perhaps a separate, optional binary package for the wrapper.