Slackware added multiarch gcc and glibc
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 5:57 pm
I check the changelog once in a while to see what my old beloved Slackware has been up to, and noticed that today. That's a big concession he's just made that will make it much easier for people who want to have a multilib environment.
Note that he's not making Slackware multilib, just the compiler and glibc (the kernels likely already had the 32 bit execution flipped on... I would too)
Anyway, that's going to make a lot of people happy.
P.S. "It's worth the bit of bloat..." Oh, like Plasma and all its deps?
Note that he's not making Slackware multilib, just the compiler and glibc (the kernels likely already had the 32 bit execution flipped on... I would too)
See, right now, there's not a great need for Slackware to be full multilib because he already provides 32 bit packages in x86 Slackware. Some of them you wouldn't want to just install as is (remove things that are going to overwrite with incompatible headers etc. or replace binaries)Fri Aug 30 17:52:19 UTC 2024
d/gcc-14.2.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Merge in parts of alienBOB's multilib build script, generalize the script
to work with both --enable-multilib and --disable-multilib, and otherwise
clean things up. Go ahead and build it multilib on 64-bit, because why not?
It's worth the bit of bloat to no longer have this package need to be
maintained separately and kept in sync. Thanks to alienBOB.
l/glibc-2.40-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Enable multilib on 64-bit. Thanks to alienBOB.
Note that Slackware 64-bit can now run a 32-bit "Hello World!" but there
are no immediate plans to add additional multilib support by default.
Maybe down the road when bare metal 32-bit support goes away.
Anyway, that's going to make a lot of people happy.
P.S. "It's worth the bit of bloat..." Oh, like Plasma and all its deps?