Package: gcc Version: 4:3.3.3-3 Severity: important [ Marked as important since this vile wrapper has permeated testing already. ]
/usr/bin/gcc on the sparc architecture is really a link to a C wrapper that calls gcc-3.3 with either -m64 or -m32 depending on the native architecture, sparc64 or sparc32 respectively. This is well intended, but the leading issue with this is that mklibs will try to reduce 32-bit libraries in a 64-bit way, and cause it to require an invocation under 'sparc32' for it to work right now. It also caused many problems with some of the assumptions I made with my kernel packages because it set its own compiler flags silently and I hadn't found out. Some objects would get compiled as 64-bit objects on a 32-bit build (no idea why, since it is supposed to pass -m32), but after I removed the gcc-wrapper diversion everything worked. I suggest that this wrapper be removed as it does more harm than good, and people who are interested in 64-bit libraries for SPARC are probably able to figure out the compiler flags themselves. Joshua Kwan -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-mm5 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Versions of packages gcc depends on: ii cpp 4:3.3.3-3 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii cpp-3.3 1:3.3.3-9 The GNU C preprocessor ii gcc-3.3 1:3.3.3-9 The GNU C compiler -- no debconf information