Re: [PULL 00/14] (Mostly) build system changes for 2022-06-24

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 18:14, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Il ven 24 giu 2022, 17:57 Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> ha 
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>> But then the i386 cross-compiler isn't used:
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> Yeah, that was intentional. In theory a softmmu target is freestanding and 
> does not need anything beyond the compiler install, so configure defaults to 
> the native compiler, which is biarch. That however assumes that the compiler 
> install includes the libgcc for both architectures.
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> Does that mean that Ubuntu installs GCC without a 32-bit libgcc.a?

I think they package it in a separate package, eg lib32gcc-9-dev
(adjust package name to suit gcc version).

-- PMM