automatic --disable-multilib

Geoffrey Keating geoffk@apple.com
Mon Oct 9 05:25:00 GMT 2006


Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> writes:

>    Shouldn't configure in gcc be made to
> automatically test if -m64 is working on
> the build machine in question and automatically
> invoke --disable-multilib if not? Currently
> on Darwin for example we have to explicitly
> invoke --disable-multilib when building on
> G4's or non-EMT64 Macintel machines. It would
> much better if configure would automatically
> handle this.

I believe trying to disable the multilib is fundamentally the wrong
approach.  I have posted a patch which I believe is the correct
approach to the automake list, where it is awaiting review.



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