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

[David Starner <prosfilaes at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not "some random package" it's the C library, and it is needed to
> compile 32-bit C programs.

It's not libc6. It's not even libc6-dev. It's libc6-dev-i386. Debian
Popularity Contest says that 84315 out of 147631 are AMD64; 99980
systems out of 147631 have libc6-dev installed; and yet only 7712
(presumably all AMD64) have libc6-dev-i386 installed (+740 with the
obsolete ia32-libs-dev). Any way I cut it, most people who have the C
library development package on AMD64 installed don't have the
libc6-dev-i386 package installed.

> If the
> latter, did you try spelling it correctly, --disable-multilib
> (singular)?

I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was misspelling it. Again, failing with
some random bug in the middle of compilation is not generally a sign
of that type of error.

> In any case, the point stands: someone needs to do the work, insisting
> on it being done doesn't do it.

That's not the point. I can send you a patch pretty quickly that
changes the default on AMD64 from --enable-multilib to
--disable-multilib. I've been told it's impossible to fix it any other
way, and saying "It is clearly a computable problem" is quite a
distance from saying "oh, we can fix this". If you can fix this
without changing the default, that's great, but nobody has even said
that's a solvable problem, except in the theoretical sense. I don't
care how it's fixed, but if you want me to do it, I'm going to make
the simple configuration fix instead of the possibly intractable
library detect patch.

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