Am 26.10.2012 23:28, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: > Thomas Schatzl wrote: > >> Florian's suggestion is correct: debian is changing some paths beginning >> with debian wheezy to improve multi-arch support. >> >> While on sparc this may not matter and maybe not needed, it's probably >> done on all platforms to reduce maintenance. >> >> I.e. libc startup files and such are now in /usr/lib/<arch-triplet>. >> Debian based distros like Ubuntu also do that in recent versions >> already. At least on 12.10 here I have these files >> in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu although it's a 32 bit only system. > > After Florian's suggestion I spent a few minutes reading Debian's > comments on their multi-arch changes, and was struck by their admission > that they anticipated that they would cause pain.
I added already several weeks ago the new multi-arch pathes as additional default search pathes to armhf-linux but since people didn't like this change I didn't add it for the other architectures. > > Trying to anticipate some of this, please could somebody with a (Linux) > x86-64 system check that 32-bit fpc works reliably (i.e. using the > facilities from the binfmt_misc kernel module). I tried running fpc on > an IA-64 system a few days ago with partial success, and if pending > changes are about to cause problems I think this is something worth > sorting out. > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
