On July 30, 2013 12:42:09 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-07-29 23:46:38 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > OK, how about "with standard abi, the compiler will find it";i.e. > > without -m32. The lib32gmp package had to place its header in an > > unusual location which means, yes, the compiler won't find it > > without help. > > But in the past, the header was placed in the usual location.
Yes. Things were changed to accomodate multi-arch.
> > Note, however, that the lib32gmp packages are going to be removed in
> > the near future. I had sent a note to this effect to
> > mp...@packages.debian.org and received a positive response from
> > Laurent Fousse. My suggestion is to simply remove the lib32mpfr
> > packages now.
>
> That's bad because in the past, would could use the -m32 option
> for programs using MPFR, and that's no longer possible
Yes. The general idea is to take advantage of multi-arch to use the variant of
your architecture.
> (note that libmpfr-dev:i386 is not installable).
I'm surprised you say that as it appears to have worked here. To my surprise,
it appears even to be co-installable with the amd64 version:
steve@riemann{2013}dpkg --list libmpfr-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
+++-=================================================-=============================-=============================-=======================================================================================================
ii libmpfr-dev:amd64 3.1.1-1
amd64 multiple precision floating-point computation
developers tools
ii libmpfr-dev:i386 3.1.1-1
i386 multiple precision floating-point computation
developers tools
steve@riemann{2013}ls -l /usr/lib/*/*mpfr*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 692110 Feb 20 01:17 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmpfr.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 20 01:17 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so
-> libmpfr.so.4.1.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 20 01:17 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4
-> libmpfr.so.4.1.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 386044 Feb 20 01:17
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4.1.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 917162 Feb 19 22:13 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 19 22:13 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so
-> libmpfr.so.4.1.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 19 22:13
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4 -> libmpfr.so.4.1.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382208 Feb 19 22:13
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4.1.1
Regards,
-Steve
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