Bug#836806: clang on dual arch (x86_64/i386) system tries to use 64 bit libs when m32 is passed

[Matthias Klose]

On 06.09.2016 09:51, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le 06/09/2016 à 02:45, Matt Parnell a écrit :
>> Package: clang (all versions?)
>>
>> Ever since the upgrade to gcc6/libstdc++6, this has been an issue. 
>> I build a private application that only works with 32 bit libs currently and 
>> as a result have to include the i386 architecture to pull in a few specific libraries.
>> For whatever reason, clang chooses to ignore -m32 and use the x86_64 libraries 
>> if I do not disable (rename/move) them.
> Yes this is because some paths changed during the libstdc++6 migration ?!
> 
> Could you report a bug upstream?

hmm, besides the usual 5/6 thing we changed the gnu triplet on i386.  I think
Michael Hudson reported an issue in Ubuntu that clang tries to use a newer
version of g++ if it doesn't exist (e.g. gccgo-6 is installed, but not g++-6).
I'm not aware of other issues.

Matthias