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

[Brian Paul]

On 08/13/2014 12:20 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> 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.

Definitely.  I hate having to hunt down obscure stuff like that.

-Brian