FS#15928 - gcc should provide multilib

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Florian Loitsch (priorit) - Thursday, 13 August 2009, 21:49 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 14 August 2009, 00:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Sometimes one needs to compile 32bit programs on 64bit systems. Gcc provides the "-m32" flag for this purpose (a similar -m64 exist for the other direction). However this flag needs the gcc-'multilib'.
There is already a package in AUR, but in order to compile the multilibs one already needs the 'multilib' package (chicken egg problem). As a consequence one must load a binary package from another location.
It would be really great if Arch could provide this package in extra or community in order to avoid loading some binary executables from untrusted sources.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 14 August 2009, 00:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 14 August 2009, 00:24 GMT
Arch64 is designed to be pure 64bit. Although, if a TU wants to maintain this in [community], it is entirely up to them.

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