On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:41 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 2011/11/18 Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca>: > > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:40 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Ideally, this would instead be converted into something that sets the > > path to i386 headers and libraries, and switches the compiling host to > > use its 32-bit personality, so that the driver can be cross-compiled > > on 64-bit x86 hosts. > > > > Actually I added libc6-dev-i386 package and compiled with -m32. > > I was considering exactly what you suggested but I recalled some objections > > in the past. Today 64 bit computers are the norm. I don't know if the > > binaries produced on a native 32 bit vs a -m32 system would be the same. > > That does not really matter as we post source code and it is up to the > > distro or final builder to decide how to do it. > > > > You would not object to this patch then? The new code will not look anything > > like the old one and it is not being used at all. > > The disagreement was about whether it makes sense to auto-build the > Geode module on anything else than i386. However, nobody ever > disagreed with having the possibility to build the driver on an amd64 > development host that has the correct libraries installed; in fact, it > was often requested. > > Martin-Éric
I posted patch 0015. It's easy to refine.
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