Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

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

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> - Make pkg-config mandatory. pkg-config can already handle the case that
>   different libraries are needed for static and shared linking.
>   pkg-config also helps the second problem (conflicting -dev packages),
>   see below

Did pkg-config solve the multiarch problem?

The problem is that pc files are architecture dependent. With
multiarch there will be

/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/glib.pc
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib.pc

Depending on the -m32/-m64 switch for gcc only one of them is valid.

MfG
        Goswin