32-bit builds on 64-bit hardware/VMs

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 16:51:46 +0200
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have read Bug #43513 and Patch #43591 [1,2] and the table [3] is not
>> really encouraging. :-(
>
> This bug has serious repercussions for bootstrapping--and thus for the entire
> GNU Guix distribution (not to mention those other distributions which do not
> enable large file support).  If I were glibc I would be recalling their
> last few releases and would be telling everyone not to use those releases.

I think we need less drama and more pragmatism.  :-)

Evidently, we’ve lived with those bugs for years just fine.

So I think we need to focus on the short-term plan for 1.2, which cannot
be a full rebuild.

As a start, could you comment out in ‘machines-for-berlin.scm’ the
machines that need to be removed in order to not run 32-bit builds in
potentially buggy environments?

(I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to contribute more to the discussion
around all the work you’ve done, but I’m really overwhelmed by
information and feel unable to determine the severity of the problem.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.