Bug#637232: general: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> I am
>> tempted to reassign 629819 to general and merge the bugs.
[...]
> The bug is closed given we have provided some hints in NEWS.Debian.gz. I
> am not sure what reassigning this already closed bug would change there.

Yep.  Thanks for the hints, by the way, and sorry to have filled your
inbox.  So if I understand correctly, this bug is about two or three
remaining things:

 1. Getting multiarch support patches applied in non-Debian toolchains
    (upstream gcc, upstream clang, and so on);

 2. Wrapper scripts for building and using toolchains that lack
    built-in support for multiarch paths (e.g., for bisecting bugs
    introduced by old versions of gcc, using proprietary compilers,
    etc);

 3. (?) Some other sort of trick to fool toolchains without lack for
    multiarch paths into coping with wheezy (symlinks to each library
    and header don't scale well for that, though it has been suggested
    by some people, but maybe a fake sysroot with symlinks to the
    multiarch and common directories could work).

(1) and (2) is basically what you said already.  Sorry for the noise.