On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:32:41PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:24 PM Demi Marie Obenour <demioben...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On 9/1/21 8:15 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > > On 01/09/2021 10:47, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > >> Also, there are tons of old closed-source i686-only games that depend on > > >> i686 libraries other than Wine or Steam. > > > > > > We can't provide i686 support forever. > > > > I think we can provide i686 support for quite a while longer, but only > > if we are willing to cross-compile. Native compilation on 32-bit hosts > > is a dead end. > > > > Cross compilation eliminates the ability to run tests, so that's a > non-starter.
That's only in the general case where the the host cannot run the cross built target arch. In the special case of cross compiling i686 from x86_64 it is not a problem to run tests. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
