Dne 11.1.2017 v 15:25 Jonathan Wakely napsal(a):
> On 07/01/17 22:53 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 05:38:58PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Lo! On 05.01.2017 17:03, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>> > [...]
>>> > ## Advantages
>>> >
>>> > * Simplification of build-tree creation. We wouldn't have to
>>> maintain the lists
>>> > and hacks that are required to make sure that multilib packages
>>> land in the
>>> > correct repositories.
>>> > [...]
>>>
>>> Just wondering: Why don't we switch to a multilib/multiarch solution
>>> similar to the one that Debian/Ubuntu uses? They put libs in
>>> directories
>>> like /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>>> (https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec ). If we'd switch to a similar
>>> solution a new (de facto) standard might evolve and in the end nobody
>>> would have to deal with hacks any more, because all major distros would
>>> put libs in the same directories. Iirc their model has benefits for
>>> cross-compilation, too.
>>
>> IMHO this is a much better idea.  Also being closer to Debian means
>> less hacking required to build GCC (or at least, it's the same hacking
>> as Debian needs).
>
> How's that? To build GCC on Debian needs an entire new configure
> option that isn't needed at all on Fedora: --enable-multiarch
>
> There's *more* hacking needed to build GCC on Debian. So yes, if we
> copy them we'll need the same hacking as Debian needs, but that's not
> less hacking than we have now.
>

And yet the configuration is wrong and does not support the current
needs of packages on Fedora:


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979403


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