On 08/21/2017 09:02 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 08:37:14AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>> Hi everyone -
>>
>> It seems Debian has moved some header directories, like /usr/include/bits
>> (and
>> sys, and asm, etc.) from /usr/include/ to, e.g.,
>> /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/
>> (arch-specific).
>>
>> My first question is: Why?
> Multi-arch. These days you can have libraries (and the corresponding
> headers) for several architectures co-installed on your system.
>
> Start here:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch
Thanks for your response and the link. I'll respond more fully to the other
reply in this thread since they are both so similar.
>
>> My second question is: How does this work? There are no symlinks, yet a file
>> like /usr/include/signal.h, has the standard "#include <bits/sigset.h>", yet
>> that path does not exist with the change noted above. So how is this file
>> included?
> Your compiler should know which architecture is relevant and set the default
> include directories (can't look it up now to be sure, sorry).
>
> Cheers
> - -- tomás
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