development packages and multilib

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 19:10:28 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> The approach that I thought about when I first ran into this problem
> was to have the config script examine the value of `uname -i` to decide
> which output to produce.  I remember being told that that wasn't
> acceptable, but I do not recall exactly why not.

It would likely require use of 'setarch i386' before calling the script
in order for uname -i to output the 32bit you may be targeting in that
run, which people may not expect.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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