On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 02:38:07PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Wookey, > On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote: > > (just a decision to leave arch-independent headers in /usr/include and > > move arch-dependent headers to /usr/include/triplet). > Doesn't this limit us to cross-compiling only across Debian architectures? If > we go for a full /usr/include/triplet split (in the same way as for > libraries) we could support cross-compiling to anything with the same > structure If having your architecture-independent headers in /usr/include is limiting your cross-compilation, then surely those headers are not actually architecture-independent. In general, this model is only intended for use with packages which are multiarch-compatible; which means that you have to have the packages installed at the same version across all architectures, regardless. Targets for which we have no Debian architecture obviously can't be multiarch co-installable. That doesn't mean we couldn't provide partial architectures for them in the future that would allow multiarch installation, but for the time being such targets seem to need to use the traditional cross-toolchain layout. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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