On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:32:41PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:24 PM Demi Marie Obenour
<demiobenour(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/1/21 8:15 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > On 01/09/2021 10:47, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >> Also, there are tons of old closed-source i686-only games that depend on
> >> i686 libraries other than Wine or Steam.
> >
> > We can't provide i686 support forever.
>
> I think we can provide i686 support for quite a while longer, but only
> if we are willing to cross-compile. Native compilation on 32-bit hosts
> is a dead end.
>
Cross compilation eliminates the ability to run tests, so that's a non-starter.
That's only in the general case where the the host cannot run the
cross built target arch.
In the special case of cross compiling i686 from x86_64 it is not
a problem to run tests.
Regards,
Daniel
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