Hi Gerald,
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2026, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> From a platform maintainer, that is. Does config.gcc need updating
>>> as well or are there still actively maintained releases?
>> I don't think so: even though FreeBSD 15/x86 has no 32-bit kernel any
>> longer, there's still a 32-bit userland, so you can build an
>> i?86-pc-freebsd15.1 gcc. I do this once a week.
>
> Yes, no need to rip anything out.
>
> It's just that all FreeBSD test results in September and October so far
> have been for x86_64, not x86/i586, hence my request to adjust the primary
> platform accordingly.
>
> Any concerns with that?
not at all. While I do run weekly i?86 builds, they are 32-bit-only.
Multilib builds are almost impossible to get right due to the weird way
rtld handles execution when both LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
are in the environment.
Rainer
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