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On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:40 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">Ideally, this would instead be converted into something that sets the</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">path to i386 headers and libraries, and switches the compiling host to</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">use its 32-bit personality, so that the driver can be cross-compiled</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">on 64-bit x86 hosts.</FONT></TT><BR>
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Actually I added libc6-dev-i386 package and compiled with -m32.<BR>
I was considering exactly what you suggested but I recalled some objections in the past. Today 64 bit computers are the norm. I don't know if the binaries produced on a native 32 bit vs a -m32 system would be the same. That does not really matter as we post source code and it is up to the distro or final builder to decide how to do it.<BR>
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You would not object to this patch then? The new code will not look anything like the old one and it is not being used at all. <BR>
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Thanks!
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