On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:39:11 +0100 Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote: > I think treating cross-building as largely orthogonal to supporting > multiple runtime ABIs on the same system isn't the worst of ideas Maybe not, but it isn't a sustainable idea. >, since > they have entirely different objectives Not entirely different - the objective for the packaging tools is actually the same, to have packages install cleanly without changes on systems with a different architecture triplet. >, and there is generally no need to > install anything but libraries and headers into /usr/<triplet> -- so I > don't think there is a pressing need to replicate a filesystem hierarchy > standard below a triplet directory. True, however, that is not a sufficient reason to not move /usr/<triplet> to /usr/lib/<triplet> and /usr/include/<triplet> if it means getting such support into the core Debian packaging tools. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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