[Mesa-dev] [Bug 36242] Can't compile gallium llvm and svga drivers with --enable-32-bit

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36242

--- Comment #7 from José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> 2011-05-26 07:03:13 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Little question bugging me: are the --enable-64-bit and --enable-32-bit flags
> useless or broken? 

They are not broken per se, but they do become useless once we start depending
on a bit more esoteric libraries (such as LLVM), because all 64bit
distributions till date only ship very few 32bit libraries (libc, zlib, x11,
and that's about it).

> I mean, if I go with the 32 bit chroot solution, isn't it
> obvious that I'm building in a 32 bit environment and the flag can be ignored?
> I'm not very familiar with chroot, so I may be mistaken. Of course, the flags
> can still be used when not building the problematic drivers.

Yes, on a chroot these flags are pointless.

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