Re: cross binutils-dev

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Wookey wrote:

> Now binutils-dev is not currenly multiarch, but is just libs and
> headers so can easily be made so. However it depends on binutils,
> which cannot be an MA:same package as it's full of arch-specific
> binaries. (assembler, linker. etc). However it also contins two
> libraries 
>  /usr/lib/libbfd-2.23.1-system.so
>  /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.23.1-system.so

Exactly.  So one fix would be to split out a libbinutils package, with
a symbols file making clear that Debian packages are not supposed to
link to it.

Thanks,
Jonathan