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Subject: Re: fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>, 	Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2013 07:33 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>> I strongly disagree.  We (GCC) are at fault here.  We implicitly
>> enable a feature at configure time without knowing its builds
>> will succeed (despite having repeated reports that it does often
>> fail) without much input from the builder (who might be ignorant of
>> real reason of failures.)
>
> That's better than silently disable multilib builds so that the
> user doesn't know until the build is complete.

I don't think this is what is being proposed.

>   It's better to abort early.

it is, as the saying goes, drowning the baby because we want to
keep the water.

-- Gaby


>
> Andrew.
>