Bug#725612: gcc-4.8: FTBFS on x32: gdc's unittest process hangs

Source: gcc-4.8 Version: 4.8.1-10 Severity: important The gcc-4.8 source package has been failing to build on x32 for a while, with the build log showing a timeout. Looking at what happens during the timeout, I see a "unittest" process being run from the gdc testsuite directory which is hung. (A

My notes on bootstrapping multilib on amd64

Here are my notes on how to bootstrap multilib gcc and eglibc packages, starting from a base without any multilib available. I thought I'd post them here in case anybody could benefit from them, or maybe had comments on how to improve the process. ln -s x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/include/x86_64-linux-