Re: multiarch standard path
Hi Bill,
Bill Allombert wrote:
> When multiarch was introduced, it was implied that a tool to query the
> multiarch would be standardised. However unless I missed need, no such
> tool exist yet. This is problematic when building older version of software.
> with legacy build systems that needs to know the path to a library.
I believe "gcc -print-multiarch" is supposed to do that.
$ gcc -m32 -print-multiarch
i386-linux-gnu
$ gcc -m64 -print-multiarch
x86_64-linux-gnu
[...]
> I wonder if we could not simply add a symlink
> /usr/lib/default-abi -> /usr/lib/<multiarch-triplet>
> This way, their would be an universal path valid for older build systems
> without running any scripts.
This requires the user to somehow declare which should be the default ABI.
At that point, a symlink farm /usr/lib/*.so.* -> <triplet>/\1.so.\2
does not seem like a terrible idea, as discussed here:
http://bugs.debian.org/648889
Though I have never needed it myself.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
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