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

[Emil Velikov]

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 :)

-Emil
> Once we have that, both of these are
> 
> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
>