On 03/13/2018 04:53 PM, Michael Matz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > >> Leaving history aside don't you agree that it would have been more >> sensible to require a -m option only if you want to build for an ABI >> different from what is currently mandated by the personality setting? > > I agree with you. But we can't leave history aside, so I'm having the > same sentiment as Jakub. The current situation is not good, but changing > behaviour would be even worse.
Ok. I'm not convinced that this change will actually hurt somewhere but having downvotes from you guys is enough to drop that patch. If I still have to build 32 bit stuff after your distros dropped 32 bit support entirely I'll probably come back with it ;) -Andreas-