rebuild gcc rpm on x86_64

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 23:23:09 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:18 -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> Can someone explain the logic to me why you need the i386 version of 
> glibc-devel installed on a x86_64 system in order to rebuild gcc for the 
> x86_64?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113893
[snip]
> Yes, I am going to go and try to install it but I am sure bothered as to why.

It's required so that you can build a gcc that supports -m32 and thus
compile 32bit apps.

Cheers,

Jeremy





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