Re: Multiarch in Debian unstable
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:40:03AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Montag, 27. Juni 2011, 16:20:23 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> > So this:
> > > So it should be a matter of changing that to print this instead on Debian
> > > multiarch: $ gcc -print-multi-os-directory
> > > x86_64-linux-gnu
> > > $ gcc -print-multi-os-directory -m32
> > > i486-linux-gnu
> > would definitely be wrong, because neither
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/x86_64-linux-gnu nor
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/i486-linux-gnu will exist. Correct would be '.'
> > and '../i486-linux-gnu', but that's of little help if one doesn't know what
> > it's relative to in the first place!
> Then make it "../x86_64-linux-gnu" instead of "."
> That will always work for all subdirectories of /usr/lib, no?
That doesn't tell the consumer of this information what it's relative *to*.
How does the consumer know that it's relative to "some subdirectory of
/usr/lib", rather than relative to /usr/lib itself? (Answer: it can't.)
> One question, though:
> How are build tools like CMake converted to use Multiarch directories for
> the installation rule?
I don't have a generic recipe for converting cmake to install to the
multiarch directory. If someone has one, please add it to
<http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation>.
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