State of multilib development update

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:40 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> On 27-Oct-2006 09:38.02 (BST), Hans de Goede wrote:
>  > 1) gcc ignores setarch
>  > "gcc -o hello helloworld.c", creates an x86_64 elf file on my x86_64
>  > system as expected however, "setarch i386 gcc -o hello helloworld.c"
>  > also creates an x86_64 elf file instead of an i386 one, to get an i386
>  > one I must do: "gcc -m32 -o hello helloworld.c".
> 
> Should gcc pay heed to the uname-specified architecture? 
Definitely no.

Rpm could do so, if it really wants.

> You wouldn't expect
> setarch i386 to affect the behaviour of a cross compiler. rpmbuild already
> does The Right Thing(tm) with selecting -m32 when performing --target=i386
> builds, it's just a shame it doesn't get %{_lib} and %{_libdir} correct.
Right, this one of the many bugs in redhat-rpm-config and rpm (For real
rpm cross building the culprit is redhat-rpm-config).

Ralf