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Re: fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file


On 07/26/2013 01:00 AM, David Starner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/24/2013 11:51 PM, David Starner wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Not at all: we're just disagreeing about what a real system with
>>>> a real workload looks like.
>>>
>>> No, we aren't. We're disagreeing about whether it's acceptable to
>>> enable a feature by default that breaks the compiler build half way
>>> through with an obscure error message.
>>
>> No we aren't.  I want that error message fixed too.  A configure-
>> time warning would be good.
> 
> The obscurity of the error message is only part of the problem; the
> fact that it errors out halfway through a multi-hour build is also an
> issue. The question is if it can't detect a compile time that this
> will fail, should GCC disable multilibs?

GCC can detect at configure time that it will fail.  It is clearly
a computable problem.  It's a matter of someone doing it rather than
insisting that the world should change to suit them.

Andrew.


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