Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon Mar 30 17:20, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> With multiarch, it's a different story, but we aren't quite there yet.
>> 
> Multiarch is definitely the right way to handle this and I think we
> should were possible be putting effort into that and not hacks.
>
> I still am not clear what the holdups are with multiarch. What is there
> that people like myself and the ia32-libs guys can do to get it working?
>
> I would really like to see it in squeeze if that's possible.
>
> Matt

Put pressure on the gcc maintainers. After years the toolchain is
still not ready to link against libraries in multiarch dirs without
adding -L options manually.

MfG
        Goswin