Le 03/04/2012 15:02, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > Package: src:eglibc > Version: 2.13-27 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > Blocks: 667005 > > gcc-4.7 and binutils (2.22) already provide support for the x32 abi. The > missing piece to producing x32 binaries is a c library. Patches are > available at git://github.com/hjl-tools/glibc.git. An aspect that makes > supporting x32 more difficult is that glibc is currently compiled using > gcc-4.4 whereas the x32 abi requires at least gcc-4.7. Switching > compiler version is not a lightly taken decision and especially not this > late in the freeze process. I estimate the diff between 2.13 and > 2.13+x32 to be around 202 files changed, 3967 insertions, 218 deletions, > and 568 modifications.
This is not possible until gcc provide libgcc in x32 version. There is kind of a deadlock there. > Due to the ongoing multiarch transition another question should be > asked: Should the new package be libc6-x32:amd64 or libc6:x32? I don't think we should add yet another bi-arch package, but go for a new architecture, so libc6:x32. Anyway /lib32 is already taken by i386 on amd64, so it's not possible to install x32 in this directory. The best way to have that is therefore to start a new x32 architecture, but that's clearly too late for wheezy. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
