X32 is an ILP32 environment with 64-bit off_t. We use -mx32 for _{POSIX_V7|_POSIX_V6|XBS5}_ILP32_OFFBIG. However, This will introduce a regression for an -m32 build: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-06/msg00154.html --- where ILP32_OFFBIG will no longer be offered. That is unacceptable. This whole area is subtle and nonobvious, because it's a header in one build environment talking about what other build environments are available. If a user program is using confstr itself, and that program is built with -mx32, then it recommending -mx32 makes some sense. But having which environment the installed getconf binary was built for affect what it reports to scripts is much more questionable. --- This may be handled at installation time by 1. -mx32 build provides POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFFBIG, POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG and XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG. 2. -m32 build provides POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFF32, POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFF32, XBS5_ILP32_OFF32, POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFFBIG, POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG and XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG. If x32 glibc installed, ia32 glibc won't install the ia32 version of POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFFBIG, POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG and XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG.
A patch is posted at http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-06/msg00168.html
Fixed for 2.18: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=1a20cb20ff0201815691ccd3249d139a7cbfbfa8