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

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:41 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

> 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

I posted patch 0015. It's easy to refine.
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