Re: multiarch and pkg-config

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

Peter Samuelson <peter@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 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ in postinst,
> if one isn't already present.  Indeed, dh_makeshlibs could do this in
> the same way it adds those 'ldconfig' calls.  (Well, I suppose some
> shlib packages don't run dh_makeshlibs -s, instead using -p on each
> library package ... but they could if they wanted.)
> -- 
> Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/

Then installing the i386 package on amd64 would create the symlink and
make sources building for 64bit find the 32bit libraries. Verry bad
idea.

I'm just missing a way to tell dpkg nicely:

Depends: pkg-config (>= 1.2-3) if something Build-Depends on me and
pkg-config.

MfG
        Goswin