Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org writes:
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Then installing the i386 package on amd64 would create the symlink
and make sources building for 64bit find the 32bit libraries. Verry
bad idea.
You completly missed the point.
1) People shouldn't be installing -dev packages
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a
écrit :
If we want to support multiarch compilation, this sounds ok to me. I'm
personally not convinced by the point of doing it. Though.
We probably don't want multiarch
]] Hendrik Sattler
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| Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 21:43:21 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
| ]] Hendrik Sattler
| | pkg-config actually does support relocation of the libraries but for a
| | strange
Am Freitag 05 Februar 2010 09:04:45 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
| #get the location of the .pc file
| PC_NONOPTS=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/\(--[^ ]* \)*//g'`
| PC_FILEDIR=`pkg-config --variable=pcfiledir $PC_NONOPTS`
| PC_RESULT=$?
| test $PC_FILEDIR || exit $PC_RESULT
This one is not, it won't
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Then installing the i386 package on amd64 would create the symlink
and make sources building for 64bit find the 32bit libraries. Verry
bad idea.
1) People shouldn't be installing -dev packages from the wrong
architecture. It is too early in the game to rely on that
Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a
écrit :
If we want to support multiarch compilation, this sounds ok to me. I'm
personally not convinced by the point of doing it. Though.
We probably don't want multiarch compilation as such but cross
compilation is a
Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org writes:
[Goswin von Brederlow]
But how would -dev packages signal that they need support for this?
They do not depend on pkg-config as they are usable without. Should
they Breaks: pkg-config ( ver)? Seems too strong.
Alternatively, create a symlink into
]] Goswin von Brederlow
| But how would -dev packages signal that they need support for this? They
| do not depend on pkg-config as they are usable without. Should they
| Breaks: pkg-config ( ver)? Seems too strong.
Breaks sounds fine to me.
--
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just
Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 21:43:21 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
]] Hendrik Sattler
| Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 16:14:27 schrieb Simon McVittie:
| However, this would also require that pkg-config itself was multiarch
| or otherwise supported cross-compilation
|
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes:
]] Simon McVittie
| `pkg-config --debug 21 | grep i486` (on my i386) reveals that pkg-config
| already looks in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/i486-linux-gnu; perhaps it could be made
| to search /usr/lib/TRIPLET/pkgconfig too (hackish version:
|
[Goswin von Brederlow]
But how would -dev packages signal that they need support for this?
They do not depend on pkg-config as they are usable without. Should
they Breaks: pkg-config ( ver)? Seems too strong.
Alternatively, create a symlink into /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ in postinst,
if one isn't
Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 16:14:27 schrieb Simon McVittie:
However, this would also require that pkg-config itself was multiarch or
otherwise supported cross-compilation (/usr/bin/i486-linux-gnu-pkg-config,
like AC_CHECK_TOOL would use? pkg-config --arch=i486-linux-gnu? etc.);
until then,
]] Simon McVittie
| `pkg-config --debug 21 | grep i486` (on my i386) reveals that pkg-config
| already looks in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/i486-linux-gnu; perhaps it could be made
| to search /usr/lib/TRIPLET/pkgconfig too (hackish version:
| /usr/lib/pkgconfig/TRIPLET could be a symlink there, on
]] Hendrik Sattler
| Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 16:14:27 schrieb Simon McVittie:
| However, this would also require that pkg-config itself was multiarch or
| otherwise supported cross-compilation (/usr/bin/i486-linux-gnu-pkg-config,
| like AC_CHECK_TOOL would use? pkg-config
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