Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a
écrit : 
> > If we want to support multiarch compilation, this sounds ok to me.  I'm
> > personally not convinced by the point of doing it.  Though.
> 
> We probably don't want multiarch compilation as such but cross
> compilation is a huge benfit for many people and multiarch dev packages
> would make it possible to cross compile without having to set a sysroot
> and without mangling packages during unpacking.

Cross-compiling packages without a dedicated build root sounds like a
very, very bad idea to me.

> It also makes sense to compile sources with everything in the triplet
> dir. No point having the *.so link or .pc files in different libdirs. It
> is probably harder to not multiarchify the -dev packages as well.

It is only marginally harder to make the .so symlink point to the .so.N
in the arch-triplet directory. It is just the same as what is done
with /lib.

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