Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2 Severity: wishlist Block: 667023 Dear dpkg maintainers and H.J. Lu,
H.J. Lu is pushing the x32 abi into tools. His work is already part of binutils 2.22 and gcc-4.7 in Debian sid. The next step to support this architecture is bootstrapping it as a Debian port for wheezy+1. In order for this to happen it would be required to add a triplet to dpkg now. Debian needs a unique triplet for x32 in order to install multiple versions of libraries at the same time. Libraries are placed in /lib/$triplet (and the /usr equivalent). So i386 and amd64 libraries can be installed at the same time as /lib/i386-linux-gnu and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. The bad news is that such a triplet is not yet well documented and maybe not even defined. I was unable to find it. Some discussion already happend on the autoconf mailinglist[1]. But no consensus seems to be reached. In theory x86_64-linux-gnu should probably have been called x86_64-linux-gnulp indicating long pointer usage. Then the x32 triplet would be x86_64-linux-gnu. Of course this is not to change. Following the discussion the logical outcome seems to be the following proposal. triplettable - Debian triplet: x86_64-linux-gnun32 - Debian arch: x32 However x32 would have to map to x86_64 in the cputable which poses some kind of non-uniqueness. I therefore ask H.J. Lu and the dpkg maintainers to comment on this issue to reach a consensus. Helmut [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-10/msg00001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
