[Software] Anyone here have any ideas on how to get gcc-multilib & g++-multilib support for aarch64 (64-bit ARM)?

[jahway603]

Currently there is a GPLv3 Free Software Project that I work on which requires the gcc-multilib & g+±multilib packages to be installed on Debian to successfully build it. It fails to build natively on aarch64 (64-bit ARM) architecture because theses packages are not available on that architecture. I currently have a temporary work-around where I cross-compile them on amd64 in a docker container and then copy them to an aarch64 (64-bit ARM) system and they work as expected, but I need help figuring out who to contact or how to get this support added so that this software can be compiled natively.

Currently, Debian 10/11/12 has the gcc-multilib & g+±multilib packages, but you will notice that neither has support for aarch64 (64-bit ARM) architecture when clicking on their links
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/gcc-multilib
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/g++-multilib

I have attempted to file the following bugs [1][2][3][4] to include these packages in Debian, but the Debian developers continue to close my bug submissions with no explanation other than “arm64 doesn’t have multilibs”. Arm64 would if these bugs were explored and resolved so that these packages would be available on this currently unsupported architecture.

[1] March 17, 2023 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1033145
[2] March 17, 2023 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1033146
[3] Nov 1, 2023 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1055199
[4] Nov 1, 2023 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1055200

After having all these bug submissions closed with no explanation, I directly e-mailed the Debian dev that kept closing my submissions, Matthias Klose, and asked him “Can you please tell me why the Debian project is not able to consider adding these packages to aarch64 (64-bit ARM, ARM64) so that software can be natively compiled on this platform running Debian?”

Matthias Klose responded “Please stop filing duplicating bogus reports. You make unproven claims
without giving any rationale.”

Does anyone here have any ideas on who I can contact so that I can get support added for these packages to be available on this architecture?

[Aki]

Does anyone here have any ideas on who I can contact so that I can get support added for these packages to be available on this architecture?

You can ask the Debian mailing list for discussion on the ARM ports for Debian GNU/Linux:

• ARM ports for Debian GNU/Linux

Please report back to update the discussion.

note: moved from "General Questions" to "Programming" sub-forum.