Deprecation of s390-32 in glibc

[Andreas K. Huettel]

> 
> Potentially you don't need to wait that long, or even do such a managed
> turn down, and you can rip this out in 2.43 release already.
> 
> Ubuntu 24.04 released last year has COMPAT turned off for s390x. In plucky
> (or earlier) libc-s390 was stopped building.
> And I see Centos stream 10 also has COMPAT turned off for s390x. Commit
> message suggests that libc-s390 is not built/provided.
> Debian just had a release with glibc 2.41, and next Debian release is
> unlikely to have s390 port anymore.
> 
> So far nobody screamed. I have tried to trace down any potential still
> useful s390 only applications, which only turned up very old db versions,
> which is not clear if they can even run anymore. Upon request to find out
> if anybody is still using them and/or expects to be able to compile or run
> them turned up crickets.
> 
> 31bit support is already dead in all distros.

Ahem. Gentoo here. We exist and still support it.

However, that doesn't mean it has to linger even longer.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dimitri.
> 


-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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