clone 497603 -1
severity 497603 wishlist
tags 497603 - patch
# A Provides: binutils would not satisfy versioned dependences,
# and there are many out there.  So I can’t see it happening soon.
tags 497603 + wontfix

retitle -1 add binutils-multiarch-dev package
severity -1 wishlist
quit

Hi Ian,

Ian Wienand wrote:

> 3) dpkg -i binutils-multiarch_2.19-1~exp2_i386.deb
> 
> Tools are diverted to the multiarch versions
> 
> 4) dpkg -i binutils-multiarch-dev_2.19-1~exp2_i386.deb
> 
> Static libraries and dev library .so links point to multiarch versions
> 
> r...@jj:/tmp# ls -l /usr/lib/libbfd* /usr/lib/libopcode*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2546840 2008-12-24 13:57 
> /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19-multiarch.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   942680 2008-11-30 05:03 /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15265334 2008-12-24 13:57 /usr/lib/libbfd.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6818868 2008-12-24 13:57 /usr/lib/libbfd-single.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       14 2008-12-24 14:03 /usr/lib/libbfd-single.so -> 
> libbfd-2.19.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       24 2008-12-24 14:03 /usr/lib/libbfd.so -> 
> libbfd-2.19-multiarch.so
[...]

Are libbfd and libbfd-multiarch ABI-compatible?

If so, great.  I have some ideas about how we could take advantage of
this.

If not, I take it this change would require Build-Conflicts:
binutils-multiarch-dev for the 21 binutils-dev rbuild-deps?

> As to Peter's comment about multiarch providing binutils - it doesn't
> create a universal assembler so it's not quite a complete 'provides'.

Cloning the bug for sanity.

Sorry for the long silence,
Jonathan



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