[tlbuild] Building TL 2015

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>
> Hi Dick (and everybody),
>
> please have a look at the top of page 26 in 'Building TeX Live (2015)',
> i.e., texmf-dist/doc/texlive/tlbuild/tlbuild.pdf.
>
> The recommended way to build for 32 bit on a system with a 64 bit capable
> compiler is, in your case
>
>   ./Build --build=i686-apple-darwin9 CC='gcc -m32' CXX='g++ -m32' \
>           OBJCXX='g++ -m32'
>
> Or you could replace '-m32' by, e.g., '-arch i386'.

As far as I understand Dick is compiling on a 32-bit only machine (at
least in this particular test). So I don't understand why adding an
explicit "-m32" or "-arch i386" should be necessary.

Mojca