On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Yes, I agree that there are more than just Linux and Solaris scenarios
that would be worth supporting, if it is easy to maintain.
The fundamental oversight in this proposal is the desire to wanting to
distinguish 64bit and 32bit systems. multilibing actually is about
supporting several ABIs in parallel.
64/32 bit ABIs on Linux actually are a very special case.
Right. There is also value to separate between some libraries which
use the same ABI but with different run-time behavior. For example,
libraries instrumented for profiling could go in a different
directory.
Some of the available libraries might not even run on the current CPU
and operating system type, but could be used to create a build which
runs on a different CPU and operating system type. OS-X fat binaries
come to mind.
There is no shortage of reasons to want to put libraries in different
directories and autoconf/libtool should not stand in the way of
freedom.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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