Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 18, 2012, at 02:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:34:12 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: How about undoing the Python multi-arch mess until someone provides evidence that the changes solve more problems than they create? Having some explanation of what's going on would

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Dec 18, 2012, at 02:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: Having some explanation of what's going on would definitely help. Is there a wiki or mailing list url that I missed and that describes what this is about? I don't think

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org, 2012-12-18, 10:24: For typical (e.g. C) libraries and headers, you have paths like /usr/lib/multiarch-triplet and /usr/include/multiarch-triplet. Quoting https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation: If your -dev package contains headers which vary across

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
Seems like a lot of effort when there is no /usr/bin/triplet/python so there can be only one arch of python installed anyway. What are the use-cases for python multiarch? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: This is the only thing I've come across: http://wiki.debian.org/Python/MultiArch Ah, of course. I've added some cross-links. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18 December 2012 15:48, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Seems like a lot of effort when there is no /usr/bin/triplet/python so there can be only one arch of python installed anyway. What are the use-cases for python multiarch? cross-compiling the archive / cross-bootstrapping the archive

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:48:56PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Seems like a lot of effort when there is no /usr/bin/triplet/python so there can be only one arch of python installed anyway. What are the use-cases for python multiarch? Being able to cross-install packages that use libpython; and as

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Wookey
+++ Paul Wise [2012-12-19 01:24 +0800]: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: cross-compiling the archive / cross-bootstrapping the archive for a new architecture. I suppose cross-compiling will be useful but I didn't think python was part of the build-essential set