Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add Libc multiarch package as build prerequisites on 64-bit platforms to the README

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 18:58 +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> When building on 64-bit platforms this prevents  build errors for
> 32-bit components which are enabled on a default build.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  README | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index a7d0033..1324c7c 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ provided by your OS distributor:
>      * GNU gettext
>      * 16-bit x86 assembler, loader and compiler (dev86 rpm or bin86 &
> bcc debs)
>      * ACPI ASL compiler (iasl)
> +    * Libc multiarch package (e.g. libc6-dev-i386 / glibc-devel.i686).

BTW, to be completely pedantic these are "biarch" packages.

Under Debian the "multiarch" package would be libc6-dev:i386 and you would
need to have run "dpkg --add-architecture=i386" at some point.

libc6-dev:i386 is the actual dev package from the i386 repository as
opposed to a special libc6-dev-i386 in the amd64 repository.

I don't believe the RPM world has anything equivalent to multiarch.

I'm not proposing we change anything though and I think libc6-dev-i386 is
the right thing to be recommending for the time being.

Ian.

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