> > > > Proposal: glibc gains two new build-time configure options: > > * --enable-hard-time64 > > * --enable-hard-lfs > > We should define new target triplets for this if it's really required. > That doesn't really help anyone *but* Debian ... > We need to support legacy binaries on i386. Few libraries are > explicitly dual-ABI. Whether it's safe to switch libraries above > glibc to LFS or time64 needs to be evaluated on a per-library > basis. For most distributions, no one is going to do that work, > and we have to stick to whathever we are building today. ... since for Debian the libraries with different ABI end up in different multiarch paths then. Anyone with a more, ahem, standard filesystem arrangement has to find a different solution for the problem of legacy binaries. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfridge@xxxxxxxxxx Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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