On 7/14/19 2:35 PM, John Reiser wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> Neal Gompa wrote: > > [[snip]] > >>> This will also make it impossible for people to locally do multilib >>> build/installs. It will remove COPR’s ability to do the same. For that >>> reason alone, I don’t particularly want this change to happen. > >> Can you expand on what you mean by 'locally do' ? > > I want to run "gcc -m32 -o my_app-i686 *.o ..." locally on my own box > to build executables that run as 32-bit apps on multilib x86_64. > For some apps 2GB of malloc() arena is plenty, and they run faster > in 32-bit mode because a 64-byte cache line contains 16 pointers > instead of only 8. This should still work, unless there are libraries you use that are not multilib. > [[snip]] > >> Finally, if you would prefer this not happen now, is there a time when >> you would further down the road? Whats the critera/goalpost/cutoff? > > One year after Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 reaches end-of-support. > It would be handy for Fedora to have 32-bit *-devel packages until then. We will still have 32bit devel packages in the x86_64 repos after this change. It doesn't affect multilib at all. It only stops building and publishing the 'pure' i386 repos on the mirror network. I don't think we can drop multilib until at least steam/wine are ready for it at least. kevin
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