Re: toolchain/46438: Can't build NetBSD netbsd-6/amd64 on Linux/x86_64

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/46438; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/46438: Can't build NetBSD netbsd-6/amd64 on Linux/x86_64
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 19:30:06 +0100

 On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:40:49AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > On May 11,  3:40pm, bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: toolchain/46438: Can't build NetBSD netbsd-6/amd64 on Linux/x
 > 
 > | Hum, could it be that your host is missing some i386 developement rpms ?
 > 
 > Yup, this is the problem. Perhaps we should detect this and give a better
 > error message? I've had this before.
 
 They don't seem to be needed.
 
 Quite likely the only things we compile for i386 are boot code.
 That requires nothing apart from the compiler (and binutils) support
 for 32bit (and 16bit) code.
 
 IIRC the other possibly affected arch is sparc.
 
        David
 
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