> > Plus if things start being built as 64-bit by > > default for debian-sparc, then sparc32 users are gone. > > If having a 32-bit build machine is not practical, > then a chroot() environment can be used for 32-bit > builds. It's cross-compiling for a different arch.
No, this is not a cross compile. I can build 64-bit apps on sparc32 and sparc64 from the same compiler. The issue here is that we must support a 64-bit overlay for debian-sparc. That's just way it is going to be. All 64-bit libs will go in /lib64:/usr/lib64 and all packages that support building for the 64-bit overlay (like glibc and ncurses already do) must do two builds. Get over it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
