Hi, On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 08:45:33PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 at 16:08, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > > > And there is another aspect, Fedora being used often as a distribution used > > by developers working on compilers and other parts of toolchain. Not having > > at least basic 32-bit libraries will be a major blocker. And not just for > > GCC/LLVM/GDB etc. developers, but also for people working on other compilers > > like EDG that raised concerns about this proposal and there could be many > > users migrating away from Fedora which no longer provides what the users > > need. > > Yes, it would be a pretty big problem if the Fedora packagers of gcc, > gdb etc. (who are among the most active contributors to the upstream > projects) were unable to use Fedora for that upstream development.
Same for elfutils. It is not that we love i686 specifically so much, but having an easy accessible 32bit build/runtime environment (on x86_64) is really valuable. We don't need much, just a c and c++ compiler that supports -m32 and some base devel libraries. Cheers, Mark -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
