Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:25:34AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > * Anthony Towns 
> > | Build-Depends work fine: you don't change the name of the -dev package
> > | (which means you can install the i386 or amd64 -dev package but not both),
> > | and set the buildds to only install native packages.
> > This loses if you want your compiler to support compiling for both 32
> > bit and 64 bit; you need different libc-dev packages installed to even
> > build gcc.
> 
> Well, that works too, if you have a virtual package (libfoo-dev-amd64
> provides: libfoo-dev) and set the buildds to only install native packages.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj

Works for the buildd but is realy easy for the user to mess up when
building stuff locally.

MfG
        Goswin