[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH 12/12] Remove unused and misleading I386ARCH configuration code

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2011/11/18 Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>:
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:40 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>
> Ideally, this would instead be converted into something that sets the
> path to i386 headers and libraries, and switches the compiling host to
> use its 32-bit personality, so that the driver can be cross-compiled
> on 64-bit x86 hosts.
>
> Actually I added libc6-dev-i386 package and compiled with -m32.
> 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.
>
> 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.

The disagreement was about whether it makes sense to auto-build the
Geode module on anything else than i386. However, nobody ever
disagreed with having the possibility to build the driver on an amd64
development host that has the correct libraries installed; in fact, it
was often requested.

Martin-Éric