Hi Bill, Bill Allombert wrote:
> When multiarch was introduced, it was implied that a tool to query the > multiarch would be standardised. However unless I missed need, no such > tool exist yet. This is problematic when building older version of software. > with legacy build systems that needs to know the path to a library. I believe "gcc -print-multiarch" is supposed to do that. $ gcc -m32 -print-multiarch i386-linux-gnu $ gcc -m64 -print-multiarch x86_64-linux-gnu [...] > I wonder if we could not simply add a symlink > /usr/lib/default-abi -> /usr/lib/<multiarch-triplet> > This way, their would be an universal path valid for older build systems > without running any scripts. This requires the user to somehow declare which should be the default ABI. At that point, a symlink farm /usr/lib/*.so.* -> <triplet>/\1.so.\2 does not seem like a terrible idea, as discussed here: http://bugs.debian.org/648889 Though I have never needed it myself. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120120214534.GA12491@burratino
