On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:45:34PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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
Thanks a lot for mentionning it. Is that documented ? > [...] > > 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: Why would you need a symlink farm for? > http://bugs.debian.org/648889 > > Though I have never needed it myself. This is useful for debbuging: for doing bisection and for trying older compiler versions. But anyway, if 'gcc -print-multiarch' return the right alue, then this is moot. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120122001246.GD19726@yellowpig
