On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:44:01 +0200 > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The second stage is to replace the dpkg-shlibdeps diversion too. It has > > > to identify the shared dependencies of a foreign binary, then look up > > > the packages that provide those. It needs updating because it is > > > currently somewhere around dpkg-dev 1.10. The standard dpkg method has > > > to be adapted for cross-building because you can't read the binaries > > > normally. > > > > If dpkg-cross can depend on binutils-multiarch, then dpkg-shlibdeps needs > > no modification to be able to read binaries. > > I'll look into that. I know there's been a lot of discussion around > multiarch in the past. I'll have to check on the current status.
It's unrelated to 'multiarch' as we know it. It's just a version of the binutils tools that can cope with multiple architectures. > > We could detect that cross-compiling mode simply because the analyzed > > binaries do not match the host binaries. > > Is it possible to use a more routine method of checking the values > returned by dpkg-architecture? > > (e.g. in makefile syntax) > DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) > DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) Sure. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
