Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:39:45PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I think this is somewhat unfortunate, but it is the reality right now.
> > Perhaps a good thing for somebody to work on would be reimplementing
> > dpkg-architecture in C so that it could be moved to the dpkg binary
> > package?
>
> As I understand, dpkg-architecture query the C compiler which is not
> always avalaible.
While that's true, it's partly just because it's
architecture-independent code. A compiled version could build that
information into the object code without much trouble.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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