Bug#629819: libc6: gcc-4.2 from lenny no longer works

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Chittenden wrote:

> How do I get lenny compilers to continue to work when installed on a sid
> based host?

>From /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian.gz:

	eglibc (2.13-8) unstable; urgency=low

	  Starting with the eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are
	  shipped in the multiarch directory /lib/$arch instead of the more
	  traditional /lib.

	  The toolchain in Debian has been updated to cope with that, and most
	  build systems should be unaffected. If you are using a non-Debian
	  toolchain to build your software and it is not able to cope with
	  multiarch, you might try to pass the following options to your
	  compiler:

	    -I/usr/include/$arch --sysroot /usr/lib/$arch

Do you have ideas for improving this?  Perhaps a wording change, or a
wrapper around gcc that could be shipped somewhere under
/usr/share/doc/libc6/ (or a "libc6-dev-compat" package that can only
be installed in one architecture at a time and install symlinks under
/lib)?

Patches against the source package are always welcome.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan