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

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 10:38:19 PDT 2014


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.

Once we have that, both of these are

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>


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