On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 6:25 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 11:10:12AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Richard W. M. Jones:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 07:27:05PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> >> Native compilation on 32-bit is a dead end.
> >
> > And I was going to add that this is wrong - 32 bit chroots running on
> > 64 bit hosts work fine and run at full speed.
>
> No, not for everyone, they don't. Some Fedora packages need more than a
> 32-bit address space to build, and that becomes more and more common.
This is true, but what proportion of packages does this really affect?
Also it's stuff like Firefox that we wouldn't want to compile for 32 bit
anyway.
See my earlier comment about llvm and OpenGL.
- ajax