We officially stopped supporting 32-bit platforms about 1 year ago, and we
currently have no CI or test systems setup for this platform. The suggestions
is to make 32-bit platforms a configure time error, such that we won’t even try
to compile. For a deprecation time, the suggestion is also to add a new
configure option to 6.0.0, which will be removed at a future major release. The
new option would be e.g.
—enable-32bit-platforms
There’s no guarantee that this will work, but we will accept 32-bit fixes going
forward, and use the option above for those builds. Developers are not required
to assure 32-bit support going forward, and if we end up in a situation where
we can not support 32-bit again, we will remove this option.
The Jira for this is
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-3537
Unless we hear otherwise within 1 week, this will be implemented for 6.0.0.
— Leif
