Comment 4 for bug 374927

Hmm, I don't think it's gcc-multilib directly; I think it's something it depends on libc6-dev-i386 that it pulls in.

I just tried this in a saucy (13.10) 64 bit vm, and it failed.

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
and it works

But sudo dpkg --purge gcc-multilib gcc-4.8-multilib
and it still works.

sudo apt-get remove libc6-dev-i386
and it fails again

so I think it depends on what you actually want from a fix; putting a dep on libc6-dev-i386 makes it
work but it's still running sparse in 32 bits.