Building mainline and 4.2 on Debian/amd64

[Joe Buck]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:52:26AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> > * Steven Bosscher:
> >
> >> On 3/18/07, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> >>> I don't need the 32-bit libraries, so disabling their compilation
> >>> would be fine. --enable-targets at configure time might do the trick,
> >>> but I don't know what arguments are accepted.
> >>
> >> Would --disable-multilib work?
> >
> > I'll try, but I doubt it.  According to the installation
> > documentation, amd64 is not a multilib target.
> 
> It is - if the documentation is not correct, please tell us where it's
> not correct, so that we can fix it,

This brings up a point: the build procedure doesn't work by default on
Debian-like amd64 distros, because they lack 32-bit support (which is
present on Red Hat/Fedora/SuSE/etc distros).  Ideally this would be
detected when configuring.