On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:53:58 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Steve M. Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> wrote: > > > > > What is the recommended course of action for such a package? > > > > For now: build on a 32-bit system or in a 32-bit chroot. > > > > Other options in increasing order of preference: > > > > Add deps to ia32-libs. > > > > Add lib32 packages for the deps. > > > > Help fix squeeze RC bugs then start work on multi-arch when the wheezy > > cycle starts. > > There's a wonderful thing called "xapt", aka "multi-arch working today". > Sadly, it can't be integrated into build-depends like real multi-arch will > be, but getting all libraries you need is a matter of typing: > > # xapt -a pdp11 liblossage1 liblossage-dev xapt is available as part of the pdebuild-cross package in Squeeze and Sid (in /usr/share) and as a standalone package in experimental - the later version in experimental is the updated version with more fixes. xapt is NOT multiarch, it still uses dpkg-cross to rename packages, but it is easier to use and more reliable than the old apt-cross package which has been removed from Squeeze and will be removed from Sid when Squeeze is released. xapt is just a handy way to get people through the removal of apt-cross until something more multiarch compatible turns up. In the xapt package is a tool called embuilddeps which automates reading the control information and identifying the packages to pass to xapt. The goal with both tools is simplicity - the tools tend to do more than you need so that you don't end up with a broken build. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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