On 23.09.2010 07:12, Allan McRae wrote: > On 23/09/10 14:55, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >> I'd also like an answer to this. Why not do away with the individual >> directories? Locating the binaries even in a fairly large package will >> be fairly quick in any case. >> > > It has been that way since 2005-03-15 with the initial commit in the > git repo: > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/diff/scripts/makepkg?id=d04baabafa > . Except then the path was hard-coded in makepkg. The configurable > STRIP_DIRS came much later: > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=ae9e33ed > > > As to why... I have never thought about it other than it seems a > waste to search /usr/share for binaries to strip. > > Allan > > Alright then. Could you add "usr/lib32" to the end of the STRIP_DIRS array for the default makepkg.conf to avoid any problems that come with building multilib packages? I can also make you a patch for this if it's necessary for such a small change.
-- Sven-Hendrik
