Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes"):
> Co-installability of interpreters is generally not planed and would
> have to be made as custom solutions, i.e. place the interpreter in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/ and provide /usr/bin/perl as
> alternative.I think it's important to distinguish between (a) coinstallability of interpreter executables for use in #!, or explicit invocation and (b) coinstallability of the interpreter code as a library which can be embedded in other applications. So for example, you are saying that coinstalling i386 and amd64 versions of tclsh (which is normally found in /usr/bin) is not generally planned. But coinstalling i386 and amd64 versions of libtcl.so _is_ intended and supported by multiarch, and presumably also of tcl extensions. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > Anyway, all of this has to wait till after wheezy. So get that out > first. Right. Thanks for the explanation, anyway. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20848.10798.95982.664...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
