[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] configure.ac: remove enable 32/64 bit hacks

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/08/14 18:38, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> These two were added ages ago, with an explicit comment "Hacks ..."
>>> They have been insufficient for years and maintainers needed to
>>> explicitly handle the build themselves.
>>>
>>> Rather than lying and pretending that it works, just kill this hack and
>>> let maintainers build things the way it should be done for their
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> Document the removal in the release notes.
>>
>> I've wanted to do this for a while. Gentoo has supported multilib
>> builds for a while and has never used these flags.
>>
>> Let's put something in the documentation that describes how to do
>> 32-bit builds on 64-bit platforms.
>>
> What kind of documentation do you have in mind ? IMHO "see how your
> distribution builds 32bit 'stuff'" is the best one :)

I think just some info telling people to use

   --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu

instead of --enable-32-bit would be sufficient.